Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Egypt's most prominent social scientist--and the most independent-minded in a conformist society ruled by President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime. For years, Prof. Ibrahim headed the Cairo-based Ibn-Khaldun Institute, which undertook, with the European Union's encouragement, pioneering studies on women and minority rights, as well as electoral practices, in Egypt. In a country where the President has been consistently re-elected with 97% of the vote since 1980, Ibrahim's institute is the only academic research organization that dares to ask troubling questions about the way Egypt is run.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Egypt's most prominent social scientist--and the most independent-minded in a conformist society ruled by President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime. For years, Prof. Ibrahim headed the Cairo-based Ibn-Khaldun Institute, which undertook, with the European Union's encouragement, pioneering studies on women and minority rights, as well as electoral practices, in Egypt. In a country where the President has been consistently re-elected with 97% of the vote since 1980, Ibrahim's institute is the only academic research organization that dares to ask troubling questions about the way Egypt is run.