Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid

Mustapha Kamel Al Sayyid is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.

Mustapha Kamel Al Sayyid was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Developing Countries at Cairo University, and he also teaches at the American University in Cairo. He previously taught at Harvard University and was a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles. His areas of specialization include the politics of development, foreign aid, human rights, and civil society. A prolific writer in Arabic, English, and French, Mr. Al-Sayyid has published extensively on civil society, political change, and ideology. His articles have appeared in World Policy, Middle East Journal, Washington Quarterly, and Maghreb-Mashreq.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, some Italian and Spanish

Education: B.A., Cairo University; M.A., Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; Ph.D., University of Geneva