Hesham Sallam

Hesham Sallam

  • Senior Research Scholar
  • Associate Director for Research, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
  • Associate Director, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy

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Biography

Hesham Sallam is a Senior Research Scholar at CDDRL, where he serves as Associate Director for Research. He is also Associate Director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. Sallam is co-editor of Jadaliyya ezine and a former program specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace. His research focuses on political and social development in the Arab World. Sallam’s research has previously received the support of the Social Science Research Council and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He is author of Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2022), co-editor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (University of Michigan Press, 2022), and editor of Egypt's Parliamentary Elections 2011-2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (Tadween Publishing, 2013). Sallam received a Ph.D. in Government (2015) and an M.A. in Arab Studies (2006) from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh (2003).

 

publications

Commentary
September 2021

Democracy and Autocracy, Volume 19(2), September 2021

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Commentary
October 2020

From the State of Vanguards to the House of Kofta: Reflections on Egypt’s Authoritarian Impasse

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In The News

Michael Robbins and Amaney A. Jamal
News

Survey sheds light on Palestinian views ahead of Hamas attack on Israel

Stanford’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy – housed at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law – hosted an event last Wednesday to discuss the Arab Barometer’s most recent survey, which concluded just as Hamas conducted its Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
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Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law director Kathryn Stoner, former national security advisor H. R. McMaster and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer were panelists in a talk titled "How the War in Ukraine Could End" on Oct. 31 at Encina Hall.
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Professors reflect on evolving role of democracy in global politics

Students, alumni, and professors reflected on the role of American democracy in the global arena at the International Luncheon panel on Democracy Day.
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Hesham Sallam
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Hesham Sallam, Scholar of Arab Politics, Appointed Associate Director for Research at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law

Effective July 1, 2023, Sallam will oversee the Center’s research programs and initiatives, develop and implement its research strategy, and provide leadership and support to faculty, researchers, and pre- and postdoctoral fellows, in addition to continuing his role as associate director of CDDRL’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy.
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