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Ashraf El-Sherif

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Former Nonresident Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Program

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Ashraf El-Sherif is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.

Ashraf El-Sherif was a nonresident associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Based in Egypt, El-Sherif is a lecturer in political science at the American University in Cairo. He is an expert in political Islam, state-religion relations, democratic transition, social movements, and state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa. 

He has contributed to several journals and newspapers in English and Arabic.

 


Affiliations

  • Democracy, Conflict, and Governance

Areas of Expertise

ReligionNorth AfricaEgyptMorocco

Education

PhD, Boston University, MA, The American University in Cairo, BA, The American University in Cairo

Languages

Arabic, English

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