Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is an Egyptian-American intellectual and a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. He is an author with a career focused on Arab political thought, Arab intellectual history, and the globalization of revolutionary radicalism.
He has made important contributions to understanding the intellectual and political dynamics within the Arab world and their intersections with global issues and the Western left.
In his autobiography, Minority of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind, Mansour describes his intellectual and personal awakening, set against the backdrop of growing up in Egypt under a rigid, authoritarian, and anti-Semitic culture. Mansour, raised in a conservative Muslim family, begins to question narratives he was taught about Israel, Jews, and the West. His curiosity leads him to a path of self-education, where he learns Hebrew and becomes fascinated with Jewish history and culture, despite the pervasive anti-Israel sentiment in Egypt.
Previously, he served as Assistant Professor for Hebrew language and culture at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Besides his autobiography, Mansour has authored numerous articles which have appeared in Commentary, Newsweek, the Jewish Journal, JNS.org, Times of Israel, and Mosaic. He currently writes for his substack The Abrahamic Critique and Digest.
