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The Future of Political Islam & Democracy in Egypt After The Arab Spring
A. Y. Zohny, LL.M., Ph.D.
Department of Applied Social & Political Science
School of Professional Studies
Coppin State University
2500 West North Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21216
azohny@coppin.edu
Prior to his current position, professor Zohny has been a Senior Advisor to the United
States Department of State/ US-AID project of technical assistance to the government of
Egypt (2005-2007) on policy reforms across several political, economic, and social
development sectors. Also, Dr. Zohny advised the World Banks Institute (1993-2013)
on a wide variety of issues including: quality of graduate and professional academic
programs; and continuing education worldwide. Also, he served as an advisor and
leadership trainer on issues of Public Policy Development, Implementation &
Evaluation, Governance, Human Capital Management and Development for Senior
Government Managers from the Middle East at the Economic Development Institute of
the World Bank. He travelled extensively to Egypt and the Arab countries on
assignments for the World Bank, the U.S. State Department/ AID, and the International
Institute of the U.S.D.A. Graduate School. He is fluent in the Arabic and English
languages.
1 Introduction
Egypt is one of the oldest and most storied cultures and civilization in the world
(1).For most of its
long history, Egypt has experienced the mixed blessing of being at, or close to, the
centers of world
politics due to its geographic location. Unlike many of its fellow Arab and Islamic
countries, such as
Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and all the Gulf States, which essentially came into existence by
colonial
administrators at the end of the first World War, Egypt is an identifiable polity that
existed since the
time of the pharaohs in 3000 BCE( 1), with government exercising the power to policemaintaining
law and order, collecting taxes, administering conscription, building centralized
irrigation systems
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