Abdel-Fattah Mady is associate professor of political science at Egypt’s Alexandria University, where he teaches courses on comparative politics, democratization, human rights and contemporary issues in the ME. He was trained in the study of politics at Alexandria University, Egypt (B.A., 1991 and M.A. 1997) and Claremont Graduate University, U.S.A. (M.A. 2004 and Ph.D., 2005).
Learn MoreAmy Hawthorne is POMED’s Deputy Director for Research. She is a Middle East expert with extensive policy, analytical, and practical experience on Arab political reform and democracy promotion. Prior to joining POMED in October 2015, Amy served as Resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, where she focused
Learn MoreGreg Aftandilian is an independent consultant, writer, and lecturer, having spent over 21 years in government service, most recently on Capitol Hill. He was foreign policy advisor to Congressman Chris Van Hollen (2007-08), professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and foreign policy adviser to Senator Paul Sarbanes (2000-04), and foreign policy fellow
Learn MoreKareem Farid is an Egyptian journalist and writer, he works as a report editor for ONTV’s Akher Kalam and writes for several outlets and publications. https://timep.org/author/kfarid/
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 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 MoreSeth J. Frantzman holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his B.A. from the University of Arizona and completed an M.A. in political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is an expert in rural settlement in the British and Ottoman periods in the Levant with a concentration on Ottoman
Learn MoreZack Gold specializes in security in the Sinai Peninsula and relations among Egypt, Israel, Gaza, and the United States. From 2011-2014 he served as a researcher at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Prior to that, he was a research associate at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and previously conducted counterterrorism
Learn MoreYoram Schweitzer, an expert on international terrorism and head of the INSS Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict, has been a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), which incorporated the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (JCSS), since February 2003, following a distinguished career in the Israeli intelligence community as well as
Learn MoreJannis Julien Grimm is a Doctoral Fellow in the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin, where he investigates political violence and the dynamics of contention in post-revolutionary Egypt and Turkey. He has studied Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science in Münster, Berlin and in Cairo where he has spent several
Learn MoreTobias von Lossow studied Political Science in Berlin, Cork and Oslo and is working at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin. SWP advises political decision-makers on international politics and foreign and security policy, primarily towards the German government and parliament, as well as relevant international...
Learn MoreSince 2011, Georgeta Auktor is Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn, in the department of Sustainable Economic and Social Development. From 2008 to 2011 she was Assistant Professor at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. In 2013 she was Guest Lecturer at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences’ Institute
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