Prénom de l'expert

Amr

Nom de l'expert

ABDELRAHIM

Research Fellow, Turkey/Middle East Program, Ifri

Research Areas:

State and society in contemporary Egypt
Media, hegemony, and authoritarianism
Egyptian foreign policy
Middle Eastern and North African Geopolitics

Turkey/Middle East Program

Amr Abdelrahim is a Research Fellow at Ifri’s Turkey/Middle East Program, which he joined in 2023. He works on Egyptian internal affairs, foreign policy, and larger regional and global geopolitical issues.

Amr Abdelrahim holds a master’s degree in international security from Sciences Po, where he defended an MA thesis on the Egyptian media field. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sciences Po Paris’ doctoral program in comparative politics. His thesis explores how rap music produces new subjectivities and collective identities among post-Arab Spring youth in Egypt.

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Publications

Studies

XP Music Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 8, 2023

Out of Thin Air but More than a Mirage: The Politics of Saudi Arabia's Nascent Music Industry

18 December 2024

This study critically examines Saudi Arabia’s nascent music industry, which is promoted as a key element of Vision 2030, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s strategic framework to diversify the kingdom’s economy. It explores how state-led investments in music and entertainment intersect with authoritarian governance. The author neither dismisses these investments as conspicuous spending nor reproduces an alarmist narrative of impending cultural imperialism. The article takes a political sociology approach to understand how Saudi entertainment plans consolidate domestic power and reshape regional cultural landscapes.

Amr ABDELRAHIM