List of Publications by Dr. Ibrahim

“A Note From Prison: Hero by Default; A Sociological Self-Portrait” in Sociological Context, May 2003.

“A Note From Prison on 9/11: Legitimate Accounts, Wrong Accountants,” in ISIM Newsletter, February 2002.

“Cross-Eyed Sociology in Egypt and the Arab World,” in Contemporary Sociology, September 1997, pp. 547-551.

“Populism, Islam, and Civil Society in the Arab World,” in John Burbridge, Beyond Prince and Merchant: Citizen Participation and the Rise of Civil Society. New York: Pact Publication, 1997.


‘From Taliban to Erbakan: The Case of Islam, and Civil Society in the Arab World.” A paper presentation to the Conference on Political Islam, Oslo: North -South Solidarity, November 8-9, 1996, and in Elizabeth Ozdalgee arid Sune Persson (eds.), Civil Society and Democracy in the Muslim World, Istanbul: The Swedish Institution, 1997.

Egypt, Islam and Democracy. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996. Reissued with a postscript from prison, 2001.

The Copts of Egypt. Ibn Khaldun Center and Minority Rights Group, January 1996.

An Assessment of Grass Roots Participation in the Development of Egypt, The Cairo Papers in Social Science, Vol. 19, No. 3., The American University in Cairo Press, Fall 1996.

“The Changing Face of Egypt’s Islamic Activism” in Aliboni, Roberto, George, Joffe, and Tim Niblock (eds.): Security Challenges in the Mediterranean Region. London: Cass, 1996 pp. 27-39.

“Political Culture and Development in Modern Egypt” in Tschirgi, Dan (ed.), Development in the Age of Liberalization: Egypt and Mexico. American University in Cairo Press, 1996, pp. 247-262.

“Reform and Frustration in Egypt” in Journal of Democracy, Volume 7, October 1996, pp. 125-135 (USA).

“Nurturing Civil Society at the World Bank,” submitted to the Social Policy and Resettlement Division, Environment Department, The World Bank, December 1996.

“Successful adjustment and Declining Governance? The Case of Egypt” in
Frischtak, Leila and Izak Atiyas (eds.), Governance, Leadership and
Communication: Building Constituencies for Economic Reform. Washington
DC: The World Bank, 1996, pp. 159-204.

Egypt’s NGOs: Volunteerism, Autonomy, and Trust (VAT), A monograph submitted to UNICEF, Cairo, December 1996.

Competing Visions of the Arab Middle East in Security Dialogue. Vol. 27 (4):
December, 1996 pp. 27-38 (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo,
Norway), and Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo,
1996.

Egyptian Law 32 on Egypt’s Private Voluntary Organizations: A Critical Assessment, Ibn Khaldun Center (ICDS) Working Series, November 1996.

Egyptian Businesspersons: Images, Attitudes, and Role. ICDS Working Series, August 1996.

Egyptian Childhood: Past and Present Images and Practices, ICDS Working Series, May 1996.



“Community Approaches to Effective Financing of Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD): An Egyptian Case,” a paper presented to the Conference on Servicing Financing of ESD, The World Bank, October 1995.

“The Two Century Debate: Population, Environment and Development,” a paper presented to the World Bank on ESD, October 1995.

“Management and Mismanagement of Diversity: The Case of Ethnic Conflicts and State-Building in the Arab World’, September 1995.

“From the Battle Of Tours To The Battle Of Algiers: The Democratic Factors in the Security of the Mediterranean”, A paper presented to the Conference on Security in the Mediterranean, Ways and Means, the Southern Countries’ Point of View, Sponsored by the Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Studies (France) and the Institute of International Affairs (Italy), Toulon, Paris, June 22-23, 1995.

The Rehabilitation of Sadat in the Arab World, Washington D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1992.

Movements of Nonviolence in the Middle East (co-editor), boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1990.

“The Future of Arab Culture” in Laslo (ed.), Many Cultures and One Destiny, Paris: The UNESCO, 1990.

“The Camp David Patterns: Domestic Patterns: and Developments in Egypt,” in William Quandt (editor), The Middle East: Ten Years After Camp David. Washington, DC. The Brooking Institution, 1988, pp. 19-62.

“The Future of Human Rights in the Arab World” in H. Sharabi (ed.). Th~ Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures, Boulder: Westview Press 1988, pp.
38-44.

“Egypt’s Islamic Activism in the 1980s,” the Third World Quarterly, 10 (2):
632-657, April 1988.

“Arab Concerns and Challenges” in T. Farah (ed.), Pan Arabism and Arab Nationalism, Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, pp. 57-67.

“The Agony and Ecstasy of Social Research in the Arab World” in Mark Tessler et al (Eds.), Survey Research in the Arab World. Boulder Cob, Westview Press, 1987, pp. 27-34.

“The Arab State of Mind” in the Club of Rome Report on the Global State of Mind, 1987.

“A Sociological Profile of Cairo,” in Abdulaziz Saqqaf (ed.), The Middle East ~ New York, Paragon House, 1987, pp. 209-226.

“Egypt’s Islamic Militancy revisited” in J. Hasdden and A. Shupe (eds), Prophetic Religions and Politics, New York: Paragon House 1986, pp. 353-363.

“Islamic Fundamentalism” in Liberalism, Fundamentalism and Palestine, Amman: The Arab though Forum, 1985.

Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives. (co-edited with Nicholas S. Hopkins). Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1985.

‘Urbanization in the Arab World: The Need for an Urban Strategy” in Ibid, pp.123-147,1985.

Egypt’s Economic Potential. Co-Author with R. Aliboni et al, London: Croom Helm, 1984.

“Arab Approaches to Settling the Arab-Israeli Conflict” submitted to JQjfl_t Seminar of Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, March 27-29, 1983 published h-i International Policy (October 1983).

“Egypt in the Eighties: A Sociological Profile,” in the International Spectator, (quarterly journal of the Istituto Affairi Internazionali), 18 (1/2): 2-16, 1983.

“Egypt and the Arab World: A futuristic Outlook,” submitted to the Arab
Studies Center’s Annual Conference. London: Chatham House, December 10-
12, 1982 (English). Translated and published in Arab Future, March 1983.

“Arab-African Cooperation: A Future Outlook,” submitted to the Afro-Arab
Cooperation Seminar. Amman: The Royal Scientific Society, September 11-
14, 1982.

The New Arab Social Order: A Study of the Social Impact of Oil, Boulder:
Westview, 1982.

“An Alternative h-i Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood and Sadat,” in Arab Studies Quarterly, 4 (1-2): 75-93 (1982).

“Images of the New Arab Social Order” in International Review of Modern Sociology, 12: 105-132, 1982.

“Oil, Migration, and the New Arab Social Order,” in Malcolm Kerr and El Sayed Yassin (ed.), Rich and Poor States in the Middle East: Egypt and the New Arab Order. New York: Westview, 1982, pp. 17-70.

“Social Mobility and Income Distribution in Egypt, 1952-1977” in Gouda Abdel-Khalek and Robert Tignor (eds.), The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Egypt. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982, pp. 375-434.

“A Socio-Cultural Paradigm of Pan Arab Leadership: The Case of Nasser” in Fouad I. Khuri (ed.), Leadership and Development in Arab Society. Beirut:
American University of Beirut, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, 1981, pp. 30-61.

“The Super-Powers and Modes of Development in the Arab World,” The Washington Quarterly, July 1981.

“Anatomy of Egypt’s Militant Islamic Groups” in International Journal of Middle East Studies 12:423-453, 1980. Also abbreviated as: “Egypt’s Islamic Militants” in MERIP Reports, No. 103, February 1982, pp. 5-14.

Population and Urbanization in Morocco, in Cairo Papers in Social Science, vol. 3, no. 5, 1980.

Saudi Arabian Bedouin (with Donald P. Cole), in Cairo Papers in Social Science, vol. 1, no. 5, 1978.

Rural-Urban Migration and Education in Morocco (co-author). Beirut:
UNESCO Population Division for the Arab States, 1978.

Arab Society in Transition (co-editor with N. Hopkins), Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1977.

“Population of the Arab World” in Ibid, pp. 303-322, 1977.

The Nomads of Saudi Arabia. (co-authored with Donald Cole). A report submitted to the World Bank, Washington DC. September 1977.

Rural-Urban Migration and Education in Iraq (co-author). Beirut: UNESCO Population Division for the Arab States, 1977.

“The Socio-economic Requisites of Democracy,” in A. Dessouki (ed). Democracy in Egypt, in Cairo Papers in Social Science, 1 (2): 54-70, 1978.

“Toward the Development of Saudi Manpower: An Evaluation and Policy Recommendations of Summer Campaigns to Settle the Nomads.” A report submitted to the World Bank, Washington DC., August, 1976.

ItToward the Development of Saudi Manpower: A Sociological Overview of Adult Learners.” A report submitted to the World Bank, Washington DC., July 1976.

“A Long-Range Urban Strategy for the Arab World,” a paper read and published in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Long Range Planning, UNDP and the National Institute of Planning, Cairo, February, 1976.

“Arab Population and Arab Cities,” in The Arab World in the Year 2000, Arab Project and Development Publications, Beirut 1975, Part II, pp. 12-24.

“Over-Urbanization and Under-Urbanism: The Case of the Arab World,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 6 (1): 29-45, 1975.

“Policy Institutions as Bottlenecks of Development in Sudan,” report, the ADAR Corporation, presented to the Democratic Republic of the Sudan in Association with Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, October, 1974.

“American Domestic Forces and the October War,” Journal of Palestinian Studies 4 (1): 55-81, 1974.

“Urbanization in the Arab World,” read at the United Nations First Regional Population Conference, Beirut, Lebanon (February 18 - March 1, 1974). ECWA/Pop Con. l/SP. 28/E. Also appeared in UN Population Bulletin, ECWA, No. 7, July, 1974, pp. 74-102.

“Images of the United States and Soviet Union Held by a Potential Arab Elite Before and After June War of 1967,” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Special Issue on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 16 (2), 1972.

“The Relationship Between Urbanization and Modernization in Yugoslavia,” International Review of Sociology, 3 (2), 1972.

“Sociological Models of Power and International Relations,” International Review of Sociology. 2 (2), 1971.

“Over-Urbanization: The Need for New Urban Strategy in the Arab World,” Proceedings of the Arab League Conference on the Development of Manpower in Industry, Damascus, Syria, July 5-12, 1971.

“Cross-Cultural Contact After a Major Crisis,” Sociological Focus, 4 (2), 1971.

“Extension of Some Models of Power to International Systems”, Peace Research, 2 (10), 1970.

“Interaction, Perception, and Attitudes,” Sociology and Social Research, 55 (1), 1970.

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