Publications by Dr. Abdel-Fattah Mady - Political Science

Books

Author:

1. Abdel-Fattah Mady, Silencing History: The Palestinian Issue in Egyptian History Books (Beirut: Jossor, 2025).

عبد الفتاح ماضي، إسكات التاريخ: القضية الفلسطينية في كتب التاريخ المصرية (بيروت: جسور للترجمة والنشر، 2025).

2. Abdel-Fattah Mady, Democracy and Guns: Civil-Military Relations & Reforming the Armed Forces (Beirut: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2021) (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي، الديمقراطية والبندقية: العلاقات المدنية العسكرية وسياسات إصلاح القوات المسلحة (بيروت: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2021)

3. Abdel-Fattah Mady, Pitfalls in Tahrir Square: Why the Egyptian Revolution Stumbled? (Beirut: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2020) (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي، عثرات في الميدان: كيف أخفقت ثورة يناير في مصر؟ (المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، بيروت، 2021)

4. Abdel-Fattah Mady, Dialogues Processes after the 2011 Arab Uprisings (The Cordoba Foundation of Geneva, Geneva, 2016) (in English & Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي، عمليات الحوار بعد انتفاضات 2011 العربية (جنيف: مؤسسة قرطبة بجنيف، 2014)

5. Abdel-Fattah Mady, Violence and Democratization in Egypt (Dar Albashier, Cairo: Egypt, 2015). (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي، العنف والتحول الديمقراطي في مصر (القاهرة: دار البشير للثقافة والعلوم، 2015).

6. Abdel-Fattah Mady, Religion and Politics in “Israel”: A Study of the Religious Parties and Groups in “Israel” and their Role in Political Life (Madbouli Library, Cairo: Egypt, 1999). (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي، الدين والسياسة في إسرائيل: دراسة في الأحزاب والجماعات الدينية في إسرائيل ودورها في الحياة السياسية (مكتبة مدبولي، القاهرة، 1999).

7. Robert Springborg and Abdel-Fattah Mady (editors), Egypt’s New Authoritarian Republic (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025)

8. تيم إبكينهانز وأبو بكر كابوجي وقالي نقوتي قاتا، الآثار السلبية لخطاب الحرب على الإرهاب، تحرير عبدالفتاح ماضي (لندن: أفق للدراسات والنشر، 2023)

9. Abdel-Fattah Mady & Abdou Mousa (eds.), Constitutions and Democratic Transition: Issues and Paradoxes in the Arab Spring Context (Beirut, Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2023). (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي وعبده موسى (محرران)، الدساتير والانتقال الديمقراطي: قضايا وإشكالات في سياق الربيع العربي (بيروت: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2023).

10. Abdel-Fattah Mady & Abdou Mousa(eds.), Transitional Justice and Democratic Transition in the Arab Countries (Beirut, Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2022). (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي وعبده موسى (محرران)، العدالة الانتقالية والانتقال الديمقراطي في البلدان العربية (بيروت: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2022).

11. Abdel-Fattah Mady (ed.), External Factors and Democratic Transition in the Arab Countries (Beirut, Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2021). (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي (محرر)، العامل الخارجي والانتقال الديمقراطي في البلدان العربية (بيروت: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2021).

12. Abdel-Fattah Mady & Abdou Mousa (eds.), Youth and Democratic Transition in the Arab Countries (Beirut, Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2019). (in Arabic).

عبد الفتاح ماضي وعبده موسى (محرران)، الشباب والانتقال الديمقراطي في البلدان العربية (بيروت: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2019).

13. Abdel-Fattah Mady (eds), Preventing Violent Extremism in the Middle East and the African Coast, vol. I: The Role of Muslim Scholars, (Geneva: Cordoba Foundation, Geneva, 2018). (in Arabic)

عبد الفتاح ماضي (محرر)، منع التطرف العنيف في الشرق الأوسط والساحل الافريقي، المجلد الأول (بالعربية): دور العلماء المسلمين (جنيف: مؤسسة قرطبة بجنيف، 2018)

14. Abdel-Fattah Mady & Ali Al-Kuwari (eds.), Troubled Democracy in the Arab Countries (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2014). (in Arabic)

الديمقراطية المتعثِّرة: مسار التحركات العربية الراهنة من أجل الديمقراطية، تحرير: علي خليفة الكواري وعبد الفتاح ماضي (بيروت: مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية، 2014).

15. Abdel-Fattah Mady & Ali Al-Kuwari (eds.) Towards a Historical Democratic Front in the Arab Countries (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2010). (in Arabic)

نحو كتلة تاريخية ديمقراطية في البلدان العربية، تحرير: علي خليفة الكواري وعبد الفتاح ماضي (مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية، بيروت، 2010(

16. Abdel-Fattah Mady & Ali Al-Kuwari (eds.), Arabs and Regime Transitions (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2009). (in Arabic)

لماذا انتقل الآخرون إلى الديمقراطية وتأخر العرب؟، تحرير علي خليفة الكواري وعبد الفتاح ماضي (بيروت: مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية، 2009).

Editor:

PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS:

1. Abdel-Fattah Mady, ” Civil-military Relations in Egypt and the Regime's Survival Strategies,” Siyasat Arabiya, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Issue 66, Jan. 2024. (In Arabic).

2. Abdel-Fattah Mady, ”External factors and Arab revolutions: four research questions,” Siyasat Arabiya, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Issue 36, Jan. 2019. (In Arabic)

3. Abdel-Fattah Mady, ”Armies and democratic transitions: how do military governments relinquish power,” Siyasat Arabiya, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies , Doha, Issue 24, Jan. 2017. (In Arabic)

4. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Islamism and secularism after Arab spring,” The Annual Book, Alhadara Center, Cairo, April 2017. (In Arabic)

5. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Transitions of the Egyptian revolution,” Siyasat Arabiya, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar, Issue 18, Jan. 2016. (In Arabic)

6. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "How can constitutions abort revolutions? the Egyptian case," Moroccan Journal for Public Policy, Morocco, Winter 2014. (In Arabic)

7. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Parliaments and democratization,” Alnahda, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, January 2015. (In Arabic)

8. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Violence and Egyptian revolution," The Annual Book, Alhadara Center, Cairo, Winter 2014. (In Arabic)

9. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Popular discontent, revolution and democratization in Egypt in globalizing world," Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 1 (2013). (in English)

10. Abdel-Fattah Mady,"Salafies and politics after the 2011 revolution in Egypt," with Ahmad Zaglol, Cordoba Foundation of Geneva, 2012. (in Arabic & English)

11. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Toward a political democratic system in Muslim Countries,” The First Arab-Turkish Conference Papers, Alhadara Center, Cairo, 2011. (in Arabic)

12. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "American foreign policy and peace in the Middle East," Contemporary Arab Affairs, Rutledge & Center for Arab Unity Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, July-September 2010. ISSN 1755-0912. pp. 271-296. (in English)

13. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Human rights education in Egyptian universities,” Alnahda, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Vol. 11, No. 2, April 2010. (in Arabic)

14. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “The concept of the democratic historical bloc and democratization in the Arab countries,” with Dr. Ali Al-Kuwari, Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi (Arab Future), Center for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut, Lebanon, issue 373, March 2010. (in Arabic)

15. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “The 2005 presidential elections in Egypt,” the Arab Journal of Political Science, Center for Arab Unity Studies & Arab Association of Political Science, Beirut, Lebanon, issue 18, Spring 2008. (in Arabic)

16. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "The concept of democratic elections: when can elections be regarded as truly democratic," the Arab Journal of Political Science, Center for Arab Unity Studies & Arab Association of Political Science, Beirut, Lebanon, issue 16, October 2007. (in Arabic)

17. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "A critique of quantitative measures of the degree of democracy in Israel," Democratization, Vol. 13, No. 2 (April 2006), pp. 257-282. With Dean McHenry, Jr. (in English).

Books Chapters:

1. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “EGYPT” (Egypt’s Defence Policy), in The Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, March 2025).

2. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Civil-Military Relations: Strategies for Regime Survival,” in Robert Springborg and Abdel-Fattah Mady (eds.), Egypt’s New Authoritarian Republic (Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming, July 2025)

3. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Introduction: The Democratic Constitution,” in Constitutions and Democratic Transition: Issues and Paradoxes in the Arab Spring Context (Beirut, Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2023). (in Arabic)

4. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Introduction: Transitional Justice: A possible Compromise that Does not Satisfy Anyone,” in Abdel-Fattah Mady & Abdou Mousa(eds.), Transitional Justice and Democratic Transition in the Arab Countries, Vol. 1 (Beirut, Doha: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2022). (in Arabic)

5. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Strategies of Political Actors during the 2011 Arab Transitions,” in After the Arab Revolutions: Decentering Democratic Theory, Abdelwahab El-Affendi & Khalil Alanani (Eds.) (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). (in English)

6. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “How do Military Forces Leave Power: A Comparative Analysis?” in Armies and Democratization (Beirut: The Arab center for research and policy studies, 2019). (in Arabic)

7. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Student Political Activism in Democratizing Egypt,” in Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy, Dalia Fahmy & Daanish Faruqi (eds.) (One World Publications, London, 2017). ISBN: 1780748833, 9781780748832. (in English)

8. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Introduction,” in Preventing Violent Extremism in the Middle East and the African Coast, vol. I: The Role of Muslim Scholars, Abdel-Fattah Mady (ed), (Geneva: Cordoba Foundation, Geneva, 2018). (in Arabic)

9. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Women in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Discourse,” in Women and Arab Spring (Amman: Al-Quds Center for Political Studies, 2015). (in Arabic)

10. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Egyptian-Israeli Relations after the 2011 Revolution,” in Egyptian-Israeli Relations (The Nile Center for Economic and Strategic Studies, Cairo, 2014). (in Arabic)

11. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Secularism and Its Fate in the Arab World," in Islam, Islamist Movements and Democracy in the Middle East: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses, Editors: Rajeesh Kumar and Navaz Nizar (Global Vision Publishing House, Delhi, India 2013), ISBN: 978-81-8220-548-2. (in English)

12. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Democracy and Democratic Systems,” in Introduction to Political Science, Mohamed Taha Badawai et al. (Department of Political Science, Alexandria University, Egypt, 2012). (in Arabic)

13. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Introduction & Executive Summary," in Abdel-Fattah Mady & Ali Al-kuwari (eds), Troubled Democracy in the Arab Countries (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2014). (in Arabic).

14. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Challenges of Democratization in Egypt," in Revolution, State and Democracy, Muhammad AlArabi (ed.) (Alexandria: Series of Political Awareness Raising, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2012). (in Arabic)

15. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Human Rights Movement in the Arab Countries,” in Human Rights Issus: A Vision of Southern Peoples, Mustafa Kamel Alsayed (ed.), (SUR - International Journal on Human Rights, São Paulo, Brazil & Partners in Development for Research, Consulting and Training, Cairo, Egypt, 2011). (in Arabic).

16. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Reactions of the Executive Authority to the January 25 Revolution," in The January 25 Revolution: Initial Reading & Future Vision (Cairo: Ahram Institute for Political and Strategic Studies, March 2011). (in Arabic).

17. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “The Concept of the Democratic Historical Bloc in the Arab Countries,” with Dr. Ali Al-Kuwari, in Towards a Historical Democratic Front in the Arab Countries, ed. Ali Al-Kuwari and Abdel-Fattah Mady (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2010). (in Arabic)

18. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “The Political Ideology of Egypt’s Political System,” in Egypt’s Political System after the Constitutional Amendments in 2005 &2007 (Cairo: AlAhram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 2009). (in Arabic)

19. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Modes of Democratic Transition: A Comparative Analysis,” in Arabs and Regime Transitions, ed. Ali Al-Kuwari and Abdel-Fattah Mady (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2009). (in Arabic)

20. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Teaching Human Rights in Egyptian Universities," in Human Rights Education in the Arab World (Cairo: Partners for Development, 2009). (in Arabic).

21. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “The Concept of Democratic Elections,” in Democratic Elections and Elections in the Arab Countries, ed. Ali Al-Kuwari (Beirut: Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2009). (in Arabic)

22. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “The 2005 Presidential Elections in Egypt,” in Democratic Elections and Elections in the Arab Countries, ed. Ali Al-Kuwari (Beirut: Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2009). (in Arabic)

23. Abdel-Fattah Mady, “Academic Freedoms in Iraq and the Arab Universities,” in Academic Freedoms in Iraqi Universities, ed. Nizam Assaf (Amman: Amman Center for Human Rights Studies, 2008). (in Arabic).+)

الأعمال المنشورة

Publications

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:

1. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Palestine," Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam & Politics, Editor-in-chief: Emad El-Din Shahin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. (in English)

2. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Government." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity. Jr. Vol.3 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2008. 353-357. (in English)

3. Abdel-Fattah Mady, "Meir, Golda." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity. Jr. Vol.5 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2008. 70-71. (in English)