Professional Affiliation

Chairman of the Board & CEO, Al Masry Al Youm Publishing House 

Expert Bio

Said Aly is the chairman of the Board and CEO of Al Masry Al Youm Publishing House in Cairo, and the former chairman of the Board, CEO, and director of the Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Cairo. He has served as president of Al Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies in Cairo, chairman of the Board and CEO of Al Ahram Newspaper and Publishing House, and was a member of the Board at Al Ahram Institutions and the director of Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. He was also a research fellow at both the Brookings Institute and the Belfer Center at Harvard University. In 2014, he founded The Gulf Arab States Institute in Washington. He served as a Senator in the Egyptian Shura Council and has published books, articles, and chapters on world systems, Arab relations, European integration, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Egypt’s political system, national security, and arms control. He contributes regularly to newspapers and media forums. His most recent publications are State and Revolution in Egypt: The Paradox of Change and Politics (Brandeis University, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, January 2012), and Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peace Making in the Middle East (London, MacMillan & Belgrave), co-authored with Shai Feldman and Khalil Shikaki. He obtained his BA from Cairo University and his MA and PhD in political science from Northern Illinois University.