Mona El-Ghobashy

Mona El-Ghobashy

Clinical Assistant Professor

Biography

Mona El-Ghobashy is a scholar of Egyptian politics whose research focuses on law and politics, varieties of protest, and limited elections in contemporary Egypt. Her work brings out the dynamics of political contestation before and after the 2011 uprising. She is completing a book on the making and unmaking of Egypt’s revolutionary situation, questioning the common labels assigned to the country’s politics before the uprising (“durable authoritarianism”) and after its defeat (“failed transition”). Her teaching extends beyond Egypt to compare politics across authoritarian and democratic regimes, the politics of protest and social movements, and the interplay between political history and theory.

Education

Ph.D. - Columbia University

M.A. - Columbia University

B.A. - Columbia University

Teaching and Research Interests

Social movements in comparative perspective; Law and politics in authoritarian regimes; Conceptualizing revolution and other forms of political change; Social and Political Thought

Selected Honors and Awards

2009-2011 - Carnegie Scholar, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Selected Publications

"Sisi's Plebiscitary Election," Middle East Report Online, March 25, 2018

“Dissidence and Deference Among Egyptian Judges,” Middle East Report 279 (Summer 2016): 12-19.

“Governments and Oppositions” in Michele Penner Angrist, Ed., Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East (Lynne Rienner Publishers: 2013): 33-52

“The Dynamics of Elections under Mubarak,” in Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing, Eds., The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011 (London: Verso, 2012): 132-148.

“Politics by Other Means,” Boston Review (November 2011): 39-44.

“The Praxis of the Egyptian Revolution,” Middle East Report 258 (Spring 2011): 2-13.

“Constitutionalist Contention in Contemporary Egypt,” American Behavioral Scientist 51 (2008): 1590-1610.

“The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (2005): 373-395.