Prof. Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Professor
Office 207 - Building G

Prof. Ali E. Hillal Dessouki worked at the department of  Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. He is a 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 of the 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. 

Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, McGill University, Canada 1973
 
M.Sc. in Political Science, McGill University, Canada 1968 
 
B.Sc. in Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University 1964 
Research Interests
  • Comparative Politics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Politics of the Arab World
  • Political Islam and Social Movements
  • Egyptian Politics and System
Journal Articles

Hillal Dessouki, A. E. (2015). The whirlwind in the Arab nation, 2014–15: from regime change to state collapse. Contemporary Arab Affairs8(3), 295-322.

Hillal Dessouki, A. E. D. (2015). The Arab regional system: a question of survival. Contemporary Arab Affairs8(1), 96-108.

Hillal Dessouki, A. E. (1993). Globalization and the two spheres of security. The Washington Quarterly16(4), 109-117.

Hillal Dessouki, A. E.(1992). The Foreign Policies of Middle Eastern Countries: Change and Continuity, JIME REVEW , No. 16  pp. 37-44.

Hillal Dessouki, A. E.(1992). Mellemasten Og Den Aendrede Verdemooder, Tiden Efter Golfkrigun, in Van Kunsten Koflik, POLITIK& HISTORIE, 6 pp.7-14 (Danish)

Hillal Dessouki, A. E.(1992). Egypt's Response to The Persian Gulf Crisis, CURRENT History, 91 (561), pp.34-37.

Hillal Dessouki, A. E.(1990). The Postwar The Arab World" JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY,  2(3), pp. 63-67.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1990). Egypt and the peace process. International Journal45(3), 553-567.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1990). L'évolution politique de l'Égypte: pluralisme démocratique ou néo-autoritarisme?. Maghreb Machrek: monde arabe, (127), 7-16.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1982). The shift in Egypt's migration policy: 1952–1978. Middle Eastern Studies18(1), 53-68.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1981). Political Science in the Arab Countries", International Political Science Association, 5(1),pp 14-15 .

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1981). Domestic Variables in Inter-State Conflict: A Case Study of the Sahara. Armed Forces & Society7(3), 409-422.

Dessouki, A. E. H., & Al-Labban, A. (1981). Arms Race, Defense Expenditures and Development: The Egyptian Case 1952-1973. Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies4(3), 65.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1980). The Development of Official Ideology in Egypt: Democracy and Socialism, INDIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 14(1-3), pp. 47-64.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1980). Policy making in Egypt: A case study of the open door economic policy. Soc. Probs.28, 410.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1973).The Viewers of Salama Musa on Religion and Secularization, ISLAM AND MODERN AGE 3,pp. 23-34.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1973). Arab intellectuals and Al‐Nakba: the search for fundamentalism. Middle Eastern Studies9(2), 187-195.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1971).Towards a Comparative Study of Secularization: Christian and Islamic Experiences, ISALM AND MODERN AGE, 11(2),pp. 49 -56.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (1971).The Mass Political Culture of Egypt, MUSLIM WORLD. 61 (1), pp. 13-20.

 

 

Chapters in Books

Books:

Korany, B., & Dessouki, A. E. D. H. (2019). The foreign policies of Arab states: the challenge of change. Routledge.

Korany, B., & Dessouki, A. (2008). The Foreign Policies of Arab States. The Challenge of Globalization. Cairo.

Haseeb, K. E. D. (Ed.). (2012). The future of the Arab nation: challenges and options (Vol. 2). Routledge. (Co-Author)

Roberto Aliboni, Ali Hillal Dessouki, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Glacomo Luciani, and Piercarlo Padoan (1984), Egypt's Economic Potential. London: Croom Helm. 

Hil̄al, ʻAl̄i al-D̄in. (1982). Islamic resurgence in the Arab world. New York, NY: Praeger.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (Ed.). (1981). The Iraq-Iran War: Issues of Conflict and Prospects for Settlement: Proceedings of a Seminar. Center of International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Dessouki, A. E. H. (Ed.). (1980). Communication System in Rural Egypt, co- authored with Ithiel de Sola Pool (MIT) and Ahmed Aziz Kamal ( Cairo University), ( MIT, Cairo University Technology Planning Program Publications).

Cudsi, A. S., & Dessouki, E. H. (Eds.). (2013). Islam and Power (RLE Politics of Islam). Routledge.