Hala Mustafa is Keston visiting fellow at The Washington Institute.
Dr. Mustafa is editor-in-chief of the Egyptian quarterly al-Dimuqratia (Democracy Review), which is dedicated to the analysis of democratic developments worldwide. Prior to editing al-Dimuqratia, she was director of the Political Department at the al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. She has a long record as a journalist and political writer and as a university lecturer, and she was previously a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute in 2003.
Dr. Mustafa holds a doctorate in comparative politics from Cairo University. During the course of her graduate studies she earned scholarships to the University of Maryland in the United States and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.
Expertise: Domestic politics, reform, and democratization in Egypt; the politics of militant Islamism in the Middle East.
Selected Outside Publications:
•In Support of Arab Democracy: Why and How? (Council on Foreign Relations 2005).
•Islam and the West: Dilemma of Coexistence (General Egyptian Book Organization 2002).
