Mona Makram-Ebeid is a distinguished lecturer of political science and sociology at theAmerican University in Cairo. She served on the National Council on Human Rights, as member of the Egyptian senate in 2013, and was an MP for five years. She also served, among other roles, as an advisor to the World Bank, a consultant to the Center for Strategic International Studies in Washington D.C., and a regional expert for the UN.

Writing in the Cairo Review