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Virginie Collombier

Virginie Collombier is a researcher associated with the Arab Reform Initiative. An expert in Middle East politics, she received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Grenoble and a Master in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. She has worked extensively on Egyptian politics, focussing on the role of the National Democratic Party in contemporary Egypt and Gamal Mubarak's political strategy. She has published: “'Modernizing' political parties: The National Democratic Party of Egpt on the path of British New labor?", in Kienle E., Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion:Political Change North and South of the Mediterranean , London, Saqi, 2009. She also worked as an analyst specializing in Middle East issues for the French administration.

Research areas: Middle East and North Africa

Publications

Egypt: before and after: Virginie Collombier 4 February 2011
An uncertain presidential succession combined with the opening of the political system had already forewarned that 2011 would be a critical year for Egypt. Virginie Collombier examines the context of the current mobilization and the use of social networks by young Egyptians. more