Adel Guindy

Adel Guindy has authored three books in Arabic and numerous articles in Arabic, English and French about Coptic issues, current affairs and political transformations in the Middle East in general, Egypt in particular, and Islamism. He provided expert input to Ph.D. theses, including in Germany and France. He was co-founder and first president (2010-2015) of Coptic Solidarity, a leading US-based advocacy group. In this capacity, he has given Congressional testimony. He served as the international senior editor (2003-2011) of Watani, the leading Cairo-based Coptic weekly newspaper.He has had a long management career with a large multinational company in the energy technology sector, with over three decades' career in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Far East.