Port Said University, ,

Port Said University is a located in the city of Port Said at the intersection of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern mouth of the Canal in Egypt. The university began operations in 1976 as the Port Said branch of University. In accordance with a Presidential Decree issued in February 2010, this branch became a separate university under the name of Port Said University. The university currently has ten faculties and institutes offering undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and graduate diploma programmes, including the Faculties of Engineering, Commerce, Arts, Education, Physical Education, Specialized Education, Nursing, Science, Kindergarten, and the Higher Institute for Management and Computing. This is in addition to twenty-five research cen- tres in a variety of fields, such as the Centre for Developing University Education, the Centre for Quality Control, and the Centre for Faculty and Leadership Development. Today, the university serves nearly 14,000 students in twenty under- graduate, graduate academic, and professional degree programmes, and provides the community with a variety of lifelong learning opportunities. It also hosts the Egyptian Olympic Village where various sporting activities take place. The author is associated with the Faculty of Commerce, one of the old- est faculties of the university. The Faculty has departments of Political Science, Economics, Business Management, Statistics, and Accounting.

G. M. Selim, Global and Regional Approaches to Arms Control in the Middle East, 119 SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 4, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29314-6, © The Author(s) 2013 Biography of the Author

Gamal M. Selim is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Port Said University (Egypt) and the British University in Egypt. He obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Calgary (Canada). His research interests include International Relations Theory, Arms Control and Non-proliferation, Politics of Development, Democratization and Middle East Politics. He has given numerous conference papers and has published: “The United States and the Arab Spring: The Dynamics of Political Engineering”, in: Arab Studies Quarterly, 35, 3 (Summer 2013); “Sectarianism and External Intervention: The Impact of the US Invasion of Iraq on the Rise of ‘Political Sectarianism’ in the Arab World”; in: Strategic Papers Series, (Cairo: Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, forthcoming); “The Impact of Post-Saddam Iraq on the Cause of Democratization in the Arab World”; in: International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 6,1 (April 2012); “Égypte: une révolution permanente, trahie ou kidnappée?”, in: Khader Bichara, (dir.), Le «printemps arabe»: un premier bilan (Paris: Alternatives Sud, 2012); “Continuity and Change in the US Arms Control Policy in the Middle East”, in: Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 35,1 (Fall 2011); “Perceptions of Hard Security Issues in the Arab World”, in: Brauch, Hans Günter; Oswald Spring, Úrsula; Mesjasz, Czeslaw; Grin, John; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia; Chourou, Béchir; Dunay, Pal; Birkmann, Jörn (Eds.), 2011: Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security—Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks (Berlin—Heidelberg—New York: Springer). Contact: Department of Political Science, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt 42526. E-mail: [email protected].

G. M. Selim, Global and Regional Approaches to Arms Control in the Middle East, 121 SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 4, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29314-6, © The Author(s) 2013