Ahmed Taher

He studied Bachelor of Economics and political science (1998) in the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. He did a Major Specialization in Political science and a Minor Specialization in Economics. He also did a Bachelor of Law (2010) in the Faculty of law, in Cairo University.

His Master thesis in Political Science Specialization is about International law and International Organization, presented at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science in Cairo University. He did a Ph.D. dissertation in political science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.

He is currently the Director of Al-Hewar Center for Political and Media Studies, lecturer in political science and law, lecturer in the field of qualifying for political and diplomatic work. He is also Publishing articles in newspapers and journals, he is a Political commentary of News Channels such as Nile News, Al Arabia, BBC, and Al- Houra.

He is a Vice chairman of Misr AL – Amal Association; Member of Board of Directors of Friendship Society of Egypt and Southern Sudan; Member of Board Directors and Head of Studies Unit of Afro Asian Friendship Association; Member of Egyptian Cultural Association; Member of the Trade Union Committee of the Press, Printing and Media; Member of Egyptian Maritime Salon.

He is Former advisor to Egyptian Minister of Transport on parliament affairs; Former advisor to the head of Central Agency for Organization and Administration on political affairs; Former advisor to the speaker of the Bahrain's Shura Council on Media affairs; Lecturer at the Civil Education Center of the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports and Lecturer at some NGOs and political parties.

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The works gathered in this volume address diverse topics related with current global issues such as geopolitics of energy, climate change, development, the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, and capitalism. They do so by placing Africa at the epicenter of those issues. Indeed, while diverse in their areas of inquiry the chapters that constitute this book all share in common the methodological concern of (re)centering Africa in the study of global affairs.

By doing so the authors of this book recognize not only the importance of re-calibrating the place of Africa in the social sciences from a standpoint that does not marginalize the continent and its societies but that on the contrary, highlight their central and crucial role in them.

For instance, if we consider together the issue of climate change and development we find out that Africa, while being the continent that has less contributed to the global emissions of carbon dioxide is both the most affected by the ongoing extractive capitalist activities and their multiple negative impacts on its ecosystems and the one that has benefitted the less from them.

In fact, one of the main arguments of this book is to show how this marginalization of Africa’s place in the global political economy stems from a marginal position of the continent in social sciences and how by (re)framing it as the world’s epicenter we can shed light both on contemporary global affairs and epistemological issues regarding not only Africa but other societies of the Global South as well.