Amal Kandeel

Amal 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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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Ashley’s War and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, both New York Timesbest sellers. https://www.cfr.org/experts/gayle-tzemach-lemmon

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Adel Abdel Ghafar

  Adel Abdel Ghafar is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and at the Brookings Doha Center, where he was previously Acting Director of Research (2016-2017). He specializes in political economy and his research interests included state-society relations and socio-economic development in the MENA region. https://www.brookings.edu/experts/adel-abdel-ghafar/

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Mohsin Khan

Mohsin Khan is a nonresident senior fellow in the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East focusing on the economic dimensions of transition in the Middle East and North Africa. Dr. Khan was a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously he was the director of the Middle East and Central Asia

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Imraan Minty

Senior Associate Fellow at Al Sharq Forum. Imraan has a specific focus on the Geopolitics of Energy. As energy resources are not evenly distributed amongst the various countries of the Al Sharq region, differences in the political economy of each country contributes towards the complex interrelationships between them. The region is also a key exporter

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