REVIVING CIVIL SOCIETY IN EGYPT.

The article discusses the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies (ICDS), the first private and professional research organization in Egypt. The firm was founded by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a professor of political sociology at the American University in Cairo, in 1988 with the idea to create an independent institution for applied social science research and sophisticated policy advocacy in the service of positive social change. ICDS commits most of its attention to the relationship between civil society and democratization.