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Center on Democracy Development and the Rule of La
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ABOUT
Hesham Sallam is a Senior Research Scholar and Associate Director for Research at CDDRL, where he serves as the Associate-Director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. He is also a co-editor of Jadaliyya ezine. Sallam’s research has previously received the support of the Social Science Research Council and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Sallam is the author of Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2022), and editor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (with Lisa Blaydes and Amr Hamzawy) (University of Michigan Press, 2022) and Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections 2011-2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (Tadween Publishing, 2013). Sallam received a Ph.D. in Government (2015) and an M.A. in Arab Studies (2006) from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh (2003).
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Democratization
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Media & Pol
Pol Opp Under Authoritarian Regimes
Languages
Arabic (native)
Education
PhD
| 2015
| Government
| Georgetown University
MA
| 2006
| School of Frgn Service
| Georgetown U
Abstracts
Diffusion with No Illusion: The Iraq War, Arab Opposition Cohesion and Regime Responses
Do democratic values promote political participation in the Arab World?
Egypt’s Uprising and the Politics of Narratives
Protest Movements, Formal Politics, and the Paradoxes of the Egyptian Revolution
Identity, Nationalism, and Authenticity: Historical Foundations of Islamist-Leftist Contention in Contemporary Egypt
Regime-Sponsored Parties in Sisi’s Egypt: Origins, Historical Evolution, and Limitations
Sisi and the Youth of the Counter-Revolution: The Limits of Regime Cooptation Strategies in Egypt
