coordinated a research project on preventing extremism and violence through the promotion of wasatiya and the avoidance of ghulu for CPI
Abdel-Fattah Mady is Professor of political science at Egypt’s Alexandria University, editor-in-Chief, Hikama for Public Administration and Policy and Chair of Democratic Transition Project, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. In 2016-2017, he coordinated a research project on preventing extremism and violence through the promotion of wasatiya and the avoidance of ghulu for CPI. He joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as a visiting scholar in Washington D.C. (Sept. 2015 – May 2016). He also served as an expert at UNDP (2007/2008) and a visiting scholar at University of Denver, spring 2015. He was a recipient of the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Fellowship for social research in 2004.
His research focuses on regime transitions and democratization in the Middle East, civil education and human rights in the Arab region and academic freedoms. He is the author and editor of several books, including “Pitfalls in Tahrir Square: Why the Egyptian Revolution Stumbled” (2020), “Towards a Historical Democratic Front in the Arab Countries,” (2010), “Arab Regime Transitions” (2009) and “Religion and Politics in Israel” (1999), as well as numerous refereed articles. Abdel-Fattah Mady was trained in the study of politics at Alexandria University, Egypt (B.A., 1991 and M.A. 1997) and Claremont Graduate University, USA (M.A. 2004 and Ph.D., 2005).
