Bilal Almasry
Bilal al-Masri is an Egyptian diplomat who has served as ambassador to Angola, Sao Tome, Principe and Niger. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/bilal-almasry
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June 18, 2019 17:24 pm
David A. Wemer is assistant director, editorial at the Atlantic Council. Follow him on Twitter @DavidAWemer.
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Democracy and PoliticsExpertHuman RightsIslamic Movements and InstitutionsKaterina DalacouraWomen Affairs
June 11, 2019 17:15 pm
Dr Katerina Dalacoura is Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2015-16, she was British Academy Mid-Career Fellow and is currently participating in a project on the ‘Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture’, sponsored by the European Commission under the auspices of Horizon 2020 (2016-19). She
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Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyExpertIslamic Movements and InstitutionsJudicial AffairsRabab El-Mahdi
June 06, 2019 18:43 pm
Rabab El-Mahdi is associate professor of political science at The American University in Cairo. She wrote her dissertation on the impact of neo-liberal economic reconstruction on changing patterns of state-civil society relations in Egypt and Bolivia. El-Mahdi’s research interests cover the areas of state-civil society relations, social movements and resistance, as well as the political
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Lama Abu-Odeh is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She has written extensively on Islamic law, Palestine, and feminism in the Arab world.
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Civil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsExpertIslamic Movements and InstitutionsKarl Sharro
June 06, 2019 18:14 pm
Karl Sharro is a Lebanese-Iraqi-British architect and satirist. He lives in London and blogs about the Middle East as KarlreMarks. Follow Karl on Twitter: @KarlreMarks
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Zaid Al-Ali is the Senior Adviser on Constitution-Building for the Arab Region at International IDEA and an independent scholar. He focuses on constitutional developments throughout the Arab region, with a particular focus on Iraq and the wave of reforms that took place in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen following the start of popular
Learn MoreElizabeth Monier
June 06, 2019 17:28 pm
Elizabeth Monier is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her research interests include identity, the nation, sectarianism, and minority and communal politics in the modern history and culture of the Arab world. https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-elizabeth-monier
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Ahmed El-Hady is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a revolutionary activist. He is one the founders of the recently formed Egyptian Coalition for Freedom and Justice which is concerned with human rights in Egypt. He holds a PhD in neuroscience from Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow
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June 06, 2019 16:18 pm
Senior Director for Research and Analysis Sarah Repucci leads Freedom House’s flagship Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press publications. Repucci has more than ten years’ experience in research and evaluation techniques in the areas of democracy, human rights, and good governance. Previously she worked for Transparency International and the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights...
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Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsExpertForeign RelationsHuman RightsLindsay J. BensteadWomen Affairs
May 29, 2019 16:07 pm
Lindsay J. Benstead is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University. She is currently a Fellow in the Middle East Program and the Global Women’s Leadership Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC (2018-2019). Her research focuses on identity politics
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May 15, 2019 15:07 pm
Abdalsattar is an Egyptian researcher, specializing in Islamic movements and discourse, and political sociology. https://en.eipss-eg.org/author/muhammad-abdalsattar/
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