Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

Email: ali@alieldean.net

Ali E. Hillal Dessouki: Professor of Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt, member of:  the Supreme Council of Culture, the Committee for Academic Accreditation – the Supreme Council of Universities, and Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of  the Center for Arab Unity Studies (Beirut), Editor in Chief of the Quarterly Contemporary Arab Affairs Journal published by the University of California Press.

He served as: Member of Al Shoura Council- Upper House of the Parliament (2007-2010) , Minister of Youth (1999-2004) , Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University (1993-1999), Director, Center  of Political Studies and Research of the same university (1986-1993) and  Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Universities (1991-1994). Elected  President of the Arab Association of Political Science (1988-1990 and 2004-2007),  and was  visiting professor at: the American University in Cairo, the University of  Calgary (Canada), University of California  – Los Angeles,  and  Princeton University  .

 He published extensively in Arabic and English. His   recent publications in Arabic include : Renewal of Egyptian Modern Political thought (2018), Great Powers and Arab Unity 1915-2015 (2017), Return of the State (2015), Comparative Politics: From Behaviorism to Globalization (2015), The Struggle for Establishing a New Political System in Egypt (2013), The Political System of Egypt 1981-2010 (2010), and in English: Arab Foreign Policies : the Challenge of  Globalization in collaboration with Bahgat Korany  (2008). His papers were published in: Armed Forces and Society, The Canadian Journal of International Relations, The Washington Quarterly.