Sara Abdel Rahim is the Development and Projects Director at TIMEP, where she works to support projects, raise funds, and expand partnerships for the institute. Ms. Abdel Rahim was previously a research associate with TIMEP, concentrating on human rights, gender, and sexuality. Prior to joining TIMEP, Ms. Abdel Rahim conducted research in Khartoum on the
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Learn MoreDr. Mohamed ‘Arafa is an Assistant Professor of Law at Alexandria University Faculty of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and Visiting Professor of Law at University of Brasilia School of Law. https://timep.org/author/marafa/
Learn MoreJake Greene is a Senior Research Associate at TIMEP, where he has researched and written on security issues in Egypt and Libya. He received a Master’s in Global Affairs from the American University in Cairo, and his research interests include nonproliferation, geopolitics, and geostrategy. Jake’s commentary has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Bulletin of the
Learn MoreMohamed Adam is a nonresident fellow with TIMEP and a Cairo-based journalist whose work has been published in The Economist, Mada Masr and Egypt Independent. Mr. Adam studied physics at Cairo University but became engaged in politics at the start of the Egyptian uprising in 2011. He was driven to document the events as they
Learn MoreMohamed El Dahshan is a development economist, and a Nonresident Fellow with the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP). He previously held the position of Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Development. Mr. Dahshan regularly writes and lectures on Middle Eastern transitions, economic development and entrepreneurship, and technology. He is
Learn MoreMuhammad Fadel is a legal expert and researcher for National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project. A graduate of Mansoura University in Egypt, Mr. Fadel is an advocate for gender justice. In Cairo, he worked as a legal researcher at Nazra for Feminist Studies in the Women’s Political Participation Academy and as a human rights attorney for
Learn MoreTimothy E. Kaldas is a non-resident fellow at TIMEP focusing on political analysis. His research interests include transitional politics in Egypt, regime survival strategies, and US-Egyptian relations. Beyond Egypt, his research examines the social and political history of sectarianism in Iraq, US policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, and discrimination against Muslim Europeans...
Learn MoreHassan Hassan is a senior fellow at TIMEP focusing on militant Islam, Syria, and Iraq. He was previously an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Program in London, a research associate at the Delma Institute in Abu Dhabi, and a deputy opinion editor for the National, the leading English language daily
Learn MoreGrant Rumley is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he focuses on Palestinian politics. He is the co-author of The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas, the first English-language biography of the Palestinian leader. Grant has published in leading media outlets including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, and
Learn MoreOren Kessler is a political analyst and journalist, and former deputy director for research and research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank in Washington D.C. Kessler served as a Middle East research fellow at The Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank. He was also the Arab affairs correspondent for
Learn MoreNelly El-Mallakh is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an Assistant Lecturer of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. Her research interests include development, migration, labor economics and political economy. She received a Ph.D. degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Development
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