title: Manar El-Shorbagy
text: # Manar El-Shorbagy
  
  Manar El-Shorbagy is Professor of Political Science and former director of the American Studies Center at the American University in Cairo. In June 2012, she was announced as a member of the revamped Constituent Assembly of Egypt.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Hawks have it their way, Al-Ahram Weekly, April 25-May 1, 2002,
  * Al democrateyya al muqayyada [Constrained Democracy: The U.S. Presidential Elections], 2004
  * Altamyeez bayna America alrassmeyya wa America al ukhra [Official America versus the 'Other America': An Elaboration on Said's Distinction], 2005
  * 'Understanding Kefaya: The new politics in Egypt', Arab Studies Quarterly 29:1 (2007)
  * (ed. with foreword) The student movement and national politics in Egypt by Ahmed Abdalla, 2008.
  * 'Domesticating Africa: Fragments of old visions', in Luc Sindjoun (ed.) The Coming African Hour: dialectics of opportunities and constraints, 2010
  