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Tim Mitchell is professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a political theorist who writes about modern regimes of power and knowledge through studies of colonialism, the political economy of development, agrarian politics, the politics of oil and the expertise of twentieth-century economics. He is the author of Colonising Egypt (1991) and Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (2002). Mitchell has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cultural Studies, Theory and Society, The Review of African Political Economy, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Social Text and other publications.