Mohammad Reza Farzanegan is Professor of Economics of the Middle East and Chair of the Research Group at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) of the Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany. He is the program director for the International Master’s program in Economics of the Middle East in Marburg. He currently manages
Learn MoreMichael Hochberg is a management consultant in the Global Energy & Utilities practice of PA Consulting Group, where he provides regulatory, investment and business strategy support to power sector clients including utilities and independent power producers. Prior to consulting, Michael worked at the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, where he assisted with...
Learn MoreThe Middle East Institute’s Honorary Chairman, Anthony (Tony) C. Zinni, is a retired four star United States Marine Corps general. He served his country in numerous diplomatic roles, as the U.S. special envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority and in missions to Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia. General Zinni retired from the U.S. Marine
Learn MorePaul Salem is senior vice president for policy research and programs at The Middle East Institute. He focuses on issues of political change, transition, and conflict as well as the regional and international relations of the Middle East. He has a particular emphasis on the countries of the Levant and Egypt. Salem writes regularly in
Learn MoreAchment Gonim (Bsc, MA) is a senior political and security risk analyst at a London-based risk management firm that works with governmental and non-governmental developmental agencies as well as multinational corporations. Gonim’s work has focused more widely on the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa regions with a particular focus on Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria
Learn MoreDr. Sameena Hameed is Assistant Professor in the Gulf Studies Programme, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her areas of specialization include West Asian Economy and India’s economic relations with West Asia and Energy Security issues. She also prepares research papers and study reports for Public Diplomacy Division, Indian Ministry of
Learn MoreMona Ezzat is the director of the work and women’s program at the New Woman Foundation. Several of her studies on the economic and social rights of workingwomen have been published through Egyptian and regional platforms. https://www.madamasr.com/en/contributor/mona-ezzat/
Learn MoreNizar was earlier based in Cairo, Tunis, Algiers, and London as a correspondent for the fortnightly Africa Confidential (2013-16) and a regional consultant for Control Risks, G3 Good Governance Group, and others on corporate investigations, political analysis, and arbitration and litigation support in the Horn of Africa, Egypt, and Maghreb (2015-16), an Egypt consultant for
Learn MoreRichard Sokolsky is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program. His work focuses on U.S. policy toward Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/1038
Learn MoreAndrew Miller is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program and the deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). His research focuses on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular emphasis on Egypt, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Gulf, and regional security. http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/1459
Learn MoreShana Marshall is Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Research Faculty member at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She earned her PhD in International Relations and Comparative Politics of the Middle East at the University of Maryland in 2012. Her dissertation, “The New Politics of Patronage: The
Learn MoreYasser El-Shimy was a visiting research fellow at ECFR, where he conducted research on EU-Egyptian relations in light of the latter’s socio-political situation. He has earned his PhD from Boston University in International Relations and Comparative Politics. His most recent research focuses on the roles of the military and the Muslim Brotherhood in the failure
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