Eberhard Kienle

Prof. Eberhard Kienle is Directeur de recherche (Research Professor) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and teaches politics at SciencesPo Paris. He previously served as director of the Institut de recherches et d’études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans (IREMAM) in Aix-en-Provence, and director of the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo, French Near East Institute) in Beirut. His publications include Ba’th versus Ba’th: The conflict between Syria and Iraq, 1968-1989 (London, I.B. Tauris, 1990), A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt (London, I.B. Tauris, 2001), and Egypt: A Fragile Power (Abingdon/ New York, N.Y., Routledge, 2022). With Nadine Sika he co-edited The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power (London, I.B.Tauris, 2015).