Adly

Topic: Near Eastern Studies Seminar Series #4: “Egypt's Successful Transition to Failed Capitalism”

Speaker: Amr Adly, American University in Cairo

Respondent: Julia Elyachar, Princeton University

Amr Adly is an assistant professor in the department of political science at The American University in Cairo. He worked as a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center. He has also worked as a project manager at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow. Adly received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence. He is also author of Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Egypt’s Failed Market Making (Stanford University Press, 2020) and State Reform and Development in the Middle East: The Cases of Turkey and Egypt (Routledge, 2012). He has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Geo-forum, Business and Politics, Turkish Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. Adly is also a frequent contributor to print and online news sources.

A digital copy of _Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt is available for PU ID holders here:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/12061731

Monday, September 21, 2020