Steven A. Cook

Steven A. Cook is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook is the author of False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East; The Struggle

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Adel Abdel Ghafar

  Adel Abdel Ghafar is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and at the Brookings Doha Center, where he was previously Acting Director of Research (2016-2017). He specializes in political economy and his research interests included state-society relations and socio-economic development in the MENA region. https://www.brookings.edu/experts/adel-abdel-ghafar/

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Elissa Miller

Elissa Miller is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, where she focuses on political and security developments in Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt. She previously served as an assistant director in the Hariri Center working on North Africa research and programming. Miller is currently a master of arts

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Belal Abdallah

Belal Abdallah is an Egyptian scholar who currently writes MA thesis on tribalism in Libya. His writings cover Egyptian domestic and foreign policy. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/al-azhar-s-role-abroad-signs-of-escalation-and-efforts-to-undermine-2

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Heinrich Matthee

Heinrich Matthee is a political analyst for companies and NGOs and a guest researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Amsterdam. He has worked as a senior researcher in African security at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), as editor of the Emirates Occasional Papers at the Emirates Centre for Strategic

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Osama Diab

Osama Diab is a Nonresident Fellow focusing on development and economic issues who is currently completing his Ph.D. in political science with the Middle East and North Africa Research Group at Ghent University in Belgium. Besides his academic research, Mr. Diab is also a researcher, advocate, and campaigner at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

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Perry Cammack

Perry Cammack is a fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on long-term regional trends and their implications for American foreign policy. Prior to joining Carnegie in August 2015, Cammack worked on issues related to the Middle East as part of the policy planning staff of

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Mohamed El-Shewy

Mohamed El-Shewy is a freelance writer and analyst based in Germany. His research interests lie in transitional justice, authoritarianism, social movements, and democratization studies. From 2012 to 2015, he was a transitional justice researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) in Cairo. He holds a masters in human rights from the London School

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