Mostafa Elwi Mohamed Saif (Arabic: مصطفى علوى محمد سيف (born March 3, 1950) is an Egyptian Political Science Professor at Cairo University,[1] a politician and a former Member of Shura Council (Egypt) Mostafa Elwi Saif was born in Faiyum Governorate, Egypt to one of the biggest families in his city.
[clarification needed] He graduated from High School with rank number 1 on his Governorate, he then joined the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS) in Cairo University and graduated in 1972 with a degree in Political Science and ranked as Second on the students of the faculty.
He was the first Egyptian, Arab and African to work at The US Institute of Peace (USIP) in 1994 until 1995.
He chaired and taught in different Political Science departments in accredited Universities in the Arab world and Africa, as well as United States universities such as California Berkeley, UCLA, Texas at Austin, Arizona at Tucson, Utah at Salt Lake City, University of Seattle, SUNY at Buffalo and Maryland at College Park.
Dr. Saif authored several publications and shared in several conferences on the national and international level.