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).

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