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E-mail:
albrecht@aucegypt.edu

Phone:
2.02.2615.1940

Office:
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies, Room 2031

Holger Albrecht

Assistant Professor

Holger Albrecht received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen, where he also taught courses since 2004. Prior to joining AUC, he held a Post-Doctoral Research Position at the Center for the Study of Democracy of the University of Lüneburg.

Holger’s main focus is on the relationship between authoritarian regimes and societies in the Middle East and North Africa. He has published numerous articles on authoritarianism and regime change, state-society relations, political opposition, and Islamist movements in peer reviewed academic journals and edited volumes. His Ph.D. thesis on political opposition under authoritarianism in Egypt (forthcoming 2009) received the Dissertation Award 2008 of the German Middle East Studies Association. Holger has edited two books on politics and Islamist movements in the Middle East and North Africa and is a co-editor of the book series “Weltregionen im Wandel” (Nomos Press). He is also the co-editor, with Maye Kassem, of another volume on Contentious Politics in the Middle East (forthcoming 2009).

Research Interests

Opposition and Islamist Movements in the Middle East
Politics in Egypt
State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes
Regime Change and Democratization

Selected Publications

Albrecht, Holger and Kevin Köhler (eds.) (2008), Politischer Islam im Vorderen Orient: Zwischen Sozialbewegung, Opposition und Widerstand, (Baden-Baden: Nomos).

Albrecht, Holger (2008), “The Nature of Political Participation,” in Lust-Okar, Ellen and Saloua Zerhouni (eds.), Political Participation under Authoritarianism in the Middle East, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner), pp. 15-32.

Albrecht, Holger (2007), “Authoritarian Opposition and the Politics of Challenge in Egypt,” in Schlumberger, Oliver (ed.), Debating Arab Authoritarianism (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press), pp. 59-74.

Albrecht, Holger (ed.) (2007), Der Vordere Orient: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, (Baden-Baden: Nomos).

Albrecht, Holger and Eva Wegner (2006), “Autocrats and Islamists: Contenders and Containment in Egypt and Morocco“, Journal of North African Studies , Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 123-141.

Albrecht, Holger (2005), “How Can Opposition Support Authoritarianism? Lessons from Egypt,” Democratization, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 378-397.

Albrecht, Holger and Oliver Schlumberger (2004), “‘Waiting for Godot’: Regime Change Without Democratization in the Middle East,” International Political Science Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 371-392.

Albrecht, Holger (2002), “The Political Economy of Reform in Yemen. Privatisation, Investment, and the Yemeni Business Climate,” Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 131-150.

Courses Taught

POLS 202: Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLS 308: Comparative Politics of the Middle East
POLS 325: Government and Politics of Egypt