The War For Peace: 50 Years Since the 1973 October War

Ali El Din Hilal

Professor of political science at Cairo University.

 

Nabil Fahmy

Founding Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Distinguished University Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy

School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo

As a career diplomat for over three decades and  Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013-2014, he unwaveringly committed to ensuring that Egypt had a vibrant principled foreign policy in addressing strategic challenges and seizing auspicious opportunities. He has held numerous leadership positions, including as Ambassador to the United States (1999-2008) & Japan (1997-1999) while focusing on international security, disarmament, conflict resolutions and Arab-Israeli diplomacy. He was chairman of the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, vice chairman of the UNGA’s First Committee on Disarmament & International Security, and represented Egypt at numerous conferences, including Review Conferences of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the United Nations Conference on Promoting International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace Conference. 

He is Dean Emeritus at The American University in Cairo, where he established and led the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy from 2009-2013 and 2014-2022. 

Nabil Fahmy is Chairman of LYNX Strategic Advisors which supports international and domestic firms in pursuing best business practices, and has served on numerous International Advisory Boards of Multinational Corporations. 

He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and was bestowed with the Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun by Japanese Emperor Naruhito. He is a member of the Supreme Advisory Board of the Beijing Forum. 

Bahgat Korany

Bahgat Korany is a professor of international relations and political economy at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He is an honorary professor at the University of Montreal and, since 1994, has been an elected member of Canada’s Royal Society. He is the first political scientist not born in Canada to be elected to that position. He has also been a visiting professor at various universities, from Sciences Po (Paris) and Oxford to Harvard and Algiers. In addition to media activity and public talks, at places including the British Parliament ( January 2013) and European Parliament ( April 2017), Korany has published more than 100  book chapters/articles in specialized periodicals from Revue Francaise de Sciences Politiques to World Politics, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Japanese. He has also published twelve books in English, or French. His first book, Social Change, Charisma and International Behavior, was awarded the Hauchman Prize in Switzerland. His 2010 book, The Changing Middle East, was noted by CNN in 2011 as indicating the “Arab Spring” a year before it happened. He was or is on the editorial board of such periodicals as the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, International Political Science Review, El-Siassa El-Dawliyya, Mediterranean Politics, and Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Science. He was also lead author of the 10th anniversary special volume of the UNDP’s Arab Human Development Report during 2010 to 2013. In 2014, he was voted by the International Studies Association for the award, Distinguished Global South Scholar, for his life achievements. He was the first to receive it from the Arab world and succeeded the dean of African studies, the late Ali Mazrui.