This podcast discusses Professor Mohamed Arafa's forthcoming article, Dreams without Illusions: The Bureaucratic Cholesterol, Administrative Corruption and the Future of a Real Democratic Middle East.

Professor Mohamed Arafa is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt; Adjunct Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indianapolis; Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Brasília School of Law (Brazil); and recently a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell University School of Law via the Clark Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East in Ithaca, New York. He has authored several law articles and book chapters in U.S., European, Brazilian, and Arab peer-reviews journals on numerous topics.