Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo
Amr Adly is an assistant professor in the department of political science at The American University in Cairo. He worked as a researcher at the Middle East Directions Program at the European University Institute. He worked as a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center and as a project manager at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Adly is author of Cleft Capitalist: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt (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 Geoforum, Business and Politics, the Journal of Turkish Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. Adly is also a frequent contributor to print and online news sources.
