September 26, 2003

The Global Reach of American Social Science

By LISA ANDERSON

Earlier this year, the conviction of Egypt's most prominent sociologist on charges of having "tarnished" the country's image, by conducting and disseminating social-science research that risked revealing flaws in the government's political and economic policies, was overturned after a long legal struggle. Ever the social scientist, Saad Eddin Ibrahim had spent his incarceration acutely observing the society of prisoners; upon release, he promptly resumed his suspended research and his

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