Nationality: Egypt
Affiliation: Cairo University
Student status: University Faculty
Level of education: Ph.D.
Field of Study: History
Joined: June 28, 2017
Mostafa Abdelaal
Cairo, EG
Member: History of Economic Thought, Latin America, Core, Commons
Coordinator: Economic History
Organizer: Economic History, Africa
Working groups
Research Interests
- Africa
- Alternatives to GDP
- Asia
- Banking
- Capitalism
- Decolonization
- Degrowth
- Economic Development
- Economic Geography
- Economic History
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- Keynesian Economics
- Latin America
- Welfare Economics
- Welfare State
About
I am currently working as an Assistant Professor of Economic History at the Faculty of African Postgraduate Studies, Cairo University. I hold a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge 2017-2022, where I focused on studying the impacts of the changing relationships of state, factor endowments, and the global economic changes in the development of modern manufacturing in Zambia from 1924-1973. Before joining Cambridge, I obtained a bachelor's degree in history from Assuit University in Upper Egypt in 2007. In 2010, I started working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Institute of African Research and Studies at Cairo University, I got a Diploma in African Studies and then an MPhil from the History Department in 2015. Then I joined the Graduate Institute in Geneva to study for one year of postgraduate studies in 2016 before joining Cambridge in 2017 as a PhD student.
About my research
I have presented many papers and published some articles in both Arabic and English on African Economic History. Recently, I published a book in Arabic titled 'Colonial Exploitation and Economics of Rubber in the Congo Free State, 1885-1908.' My research interests are centred on studying the economic history of Africa, Afro-Arab economic relations, history of industrialisation and development in Africa and the Arab regions. Currently, I am working on the publication of my PhD project and preparing a new project that links the questions of industrial diversification and mono-commodity in Africa and the Middle East.