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Safinaz El Tarouty (Egypt) earned a PhD in politics from the University of East Anglia in the UK. She also holds an MA in Middle East Studies and a BA in Political Science both from the American University in Cairo. Her areas of interests include comparative politics, Middle Eastern politics, and the political economy of authoritarianism. She is the author of Businessmen Clientelism and Authoritarianism in Egypt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. She is currently doing historical research on 19th century Egypt..