mustapha kamel Al-sayyid

Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid was educated in Egypt and Switzerland. He got his Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland in 1979.He has been teaching Political Science at Cairo University and the American University since 1982.He spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles and one semester at the Law School of Harvard University. He spent the Fall semester of 2005 teaching two Political Science courses at Colgate University in the US.  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 spent two months in the summer of 2002 working as a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York. He has several publications in Arabic, English and French. He works mostly on questions of Political Economy, Human Rights, and civil society. 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 which 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 from April 1995 until November 2004.Later(2005-2017) he was the founder and the executive director of Partners –in-Development for Research, Consulting and Training, a think tank devoted to issues of development.He was the first to teach a course on Politics of Human rights at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University and at the American University in Cairo.He is actively involved in civil society movements in Egypt where he participates in public debates in the country through a bi-weekly article in Al-Shorouk newspaper and sporadic articles in other newspapers and reviews in Egypt and interviews to media outlets such as the BBC Arabic Service, German, French and other international satellite television channels.