Katerina Dalacoura

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

Learn More

Rabab El-Mahdi

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

Learn More

Zaid Al-Ali

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 More

Sarah Repucci

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...

Learn More

Lindsay J. Benstead

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

Learn More

Nervana Mahmoud

Nervana Mahmoud is a Doctor and Independent commentator on Middle East issues. The only practising doctor in UK who writes regularly in Middle East politics.  She started blogging and writing on Middle East issues after the Egyptian revolution in 2011. At the start of 2013, Nervana began publishing a weekly compilation of Egyptian news, reports, and analyses

Learn More

Thomas O. Melia

Thomas O. Melia is a Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Washington Director of PEN America, an organization standing at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and around the world, and he is a monthly columnist for The American

Learn More

Lisa Blaydes is an assistant professor in the political science department at Stanford who specializes in comparative politics and politics of the Middle East. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies...

Learn More

Leslie Campbell

Leslie Campbell has 25 years of experience in international development, parliamentary governance and political affairs. He joined NDI in 1994 and has directed the Institute’s programs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 1996. As NDI’s senior associate and regional director, Mr. Campbell has overseen a vast expansion of NDI’s programs in

Learn More
Skip to toolbar