Dr. Hala Mostafa currently works at the Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies (ACPSS) where she is director of research and editor-in-chief of “Democracy Review”. She also writes for Al-Ahram newspaper and is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Diplomatic Training of the Egyptian Ministry of Diplomatic Affairs, Nasser Military Academy and the postgraduate department of the Faculty of Economic and Political Science at Cairo University

Education

• BA in political science, Cairo University, 1980
  
• MA in political science, Cairo University, 1986
  
• Ph.D. in political science (comparative politics), Cairo University, 1994
  

Expertise:

Dr. Mostafa has participated in a number of international conferences in Egypt, the United States and Europe. These covered such topics as Islamic fundamentalism, US policy in the Middle East, the effects of globalization, and democratization in the Arab world

Publications:

• The Political Parties, ACPSS, Cairo, 2000 (in Arabic)
  

• The Egyptian Political System and the Democratization Process, Some Contemporary Issues, MERIT, P.H.,Cairo, 1999 (in Arabic)
  
• The Legislative Elections in Egypt of 1995, ACPSS, Cairo, 1996 (in Arabic)
  
• The State and Islamic Opposition in Egypt under Sadat and Mubarak, El-Mahrousa P.H., Cairo, 1995 (in Arabic)
  
• The Islamist Movement under Mubarak, in The Islamist Dilemma, Ithaca Press, London, 1995 (in English and Italian)
  
• Political Islam in Egypt: From Reformist Movement to Violent Groups, ACPSS, Cairo, 1992
  
• Les Forces Islamistes et l’Experience Democratique en Egypte, in Democratie et Democratization dans le Monde Arabe, CEDEJ, Cairo, 1992 (in French and Arabic)