From 1979-81, Youssef continued to commute between Bochum and Tanta, teaching Methodology of Research at the Department of Sociology and the Department of Philosophy at Tanta University (Egypt).[12] He was Professor of Methodology of Research at the Academy of Arts in Cairo from 1983-84.[13] Until his retirement, Magdi Youssef was Professor of Comparative Literature and Drama Studies at the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University (from the mid-1980s-2005).[14] From 1988-91 he was simultaneously a visiting Professor of Methodology of Research at the Faculty of Mass Communication at the same university.[15] Youssef has also been a visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin.[16] And he taught at Bonn University in the context of Gastprofessur.[17] More recently, he has been offered a research fellowship at the Free University of Berlin (in 2014).