Dr Ewan Stein

Contact Details:

Department of Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Edinburgh

Email: Ewan.Stein@ed.ac.uk

Tel: 0044 (0)131 650 9974

Current Activities:

Research interests:

International Relations of the Middle East; Political Islam – especially in Egypt; History of ideas in the Arab world; Foreign Policy Analysis; Security Studies approaches to Middle East politics; Jihad – history, interpretation and application of the concept.

 

Education:

PhD, London School of Economics (2008)

MA, Georgetown University (2000)

MA (Hons), University of Edinburgh (1997)

Publications/Papers:

• Books

  • Representing Israel in Modern Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign Policy from Nasser to Mubarak, London: IB Tauris (November 2011

• Journal articles

  • “The Camp David Consensus: Ideas, Intellectuals and the Division of Labour in Egypt’s Foreign Policy toward Israel,” International Studies Quarterly. Volume 55 Issue 3 (December 2011).
  • "An Uncivil Partnership: Egypt’s Gama’a Islamiyya and the State after the Jihad,” Third World Quarterly (Forthcoming, summer 2011).
  • “What Does the Gama’a Islamiyya Want Now?” Middle East Report, 254 (Spring 2010).

• Edited books

  • With Elisabeth Kendall. Rethinking Jihad, London: IB Tauris (Forthcoming, November 2011).

  Book chapters

  • “Jihadi Revisions in Egypt: the End of Radicalism?” in Elisabeth Kendall and Ewan Stein eds., Rethinking Jihad, London: IB Tauris (Forthcoming, November 2011).
  • With Elisabeth Kendall, “Introduction” in Elisabeth Kendall and Ewan Stein eds., Rethinking Jihad, London: IB Tauris (Forthcoming, November 2011).

  Other Publications

  • “Yusuf Qaradawi’s Jihad”, The Guardian, 17 August 2009.
  • Review of Jonathan Cook, Israel and the Clash of Civilisations, British Journal of Middle East Studies, August 2009.