Samer Atallah is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the American University in Cairo. His research interests are trade and international economics, development economics, and natural resource and environmental economics. He holds a Ph.D. from McGill University. http://www.mei.edu/profile/samer-atallah
Learn MoreYasmin El-Rifae works for the Palestine Festival of Literature and is a freelance writer. She lives in Cairo and blogs at cairoagain.wordpress.com. http://www.mei.edu/profile/yasmin-el-rifae
Learn MoreJayson Casper is a writer and researcher with Arab West Report based in Cairo. He serves as local correspondent for Christianity Today and blogs regularly on Egyptian politics, religion, and culture at A Sense of Belonging. Jayson has worked previously in Mauritania, Jordan, and Tunisia, and holds an M.A. in Islamic studies from Columbia International
Learn MoreAhmed Farouk Ghoneim is a professor of economics in the faculty of economics and political science at Cairo University. He is a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries (ERF) in Egypt, where his research focuses on Iran and Turkey, and is also a research fellow at the Center for Social and
Learn MoreYahia Shawkat is co-founder and research coordinator of 10 Tooba | Applied Research on the Built Environment, where he focuses on mapping and policy research. Shawkat’s work includes the infographic book, Social Justice and the Built Environment | A Map of Egypt (in Arabic), and the Right to Housing Initiative documentaries. He has also analyzed
Learn MoreHassan Mneimneh specializes in the Middle East and North Africa and the wider Islamic world with a particular emphasis on radicalism and factionalism. In previous capacities, he has focused on the significance of socio-political and cultural developments in the MENA region to U.S. and European policies; assessed civil reaction to radicalizing tendencies in Muslim societies;
Learn MoreSamer Mosis is a Gulf energy consultant for The Lafayette Group LLC and a master’s candidate at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. http://www.mei.edu/profile/samer-mosis
Learn MoreLouise Sarant is a freelance environment and science journalist based in Cairo. http://www.mei.edu/profile/louise-sarant
Learn MoreDr. Oleg Svet is a security sector assistance analyst at Group W. He wrote his dissertation on the role of security assistance in the buildup of the Iraqi military. From 2010 to 2011 he served as a strategic planner for the Spokesman of U.S. Forces-Iraq. http://www.mei.edu/profile/oleg-svet
Learn MoreDirector. PalThink for Strategic Studies, Palestine.Omar Shaban is an analyst on political economy of the Middle East and the founder of PalThink for Strategic Studies. He was a candidate for the 1st Palestinian parliamentary elections in 1996. He is independent from any political affiliation. Omar regularly writes for various international magazines and has been interviewed
Learn MoreHossam Abougabal is a reporter at the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), covering construction, government and politics in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Bahrain. He has been living and writing in the Middle East since 2011 and has focused on the key issues shaping the region. More recently, he has closely tracked the Egyptian economic revival
Learn MoreAmal Kandeel is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. She specializes in the political economy of the Middle East, and particularly in water and food security, agriculture and climate change, and poverty and rural development issues. Her work has been focused on Egypt, as well as on Jordan, Syria, Morocco, and the UAE.
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