Prof. Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid
Biography:
Prof. Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid was educated at Cairo University and
received his PhD from the University of Geneva in 1979. He has been teaching
Political Science at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo since
1982. He taught at Harvard (2000) and Colgate University (2005), and was
Visiting Scholar at UCLA (1990) and Carnegie Endowment (2000). He held
leading positions in both the Egyptian Human Rights Organization and the
Arab Political Science Association. He served as a member of the Committee
on Global Security and Cooperation of the US Social Science Research Council.
He has several publications in Arabic, English, and French. His writings
were published in World Policy, Middle East Journal, Arab Studies Quarterly,
Maghreb-Mashreq, and Cairo Papers in Social Science. He was the leader of the
Core Team that prepared the original version of the Arab Human Development
Report of 2009. He directed the Center for the Study of Developing Countries
at Cairo University (1995-2004) and Partners in Development for Research,
Training, and Consulting (2005-2017).
Abstract: