Aron Lund is a fellow at The Century Foundation. He is a Swedish writer on Middle Eastern affairs and has written extensively on Syrian politics. Between 2013 and 2016, edited the site Syria in Crisis for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was also a nonresident associate in 2016. He is a fellow of the Centre
Learn MoreDina Esfandiary is a fellow at The Century Foundation. Her research focuses on Persian Gulf security, Iran’s foreign relations, and relations between states and non-proliferation in the Middle East. She is also an international security program research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Prior to this, she was
Learn MoreDaniel Benaim is a fellow at The Century Foundation. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and part-time faculty in the Program in International Relations at New York University (NYU). Benaim works on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Previously, he served as Middle East policy adviser and
Learn Moreİsmet Akça is no longer with the Carnegie Middle East Center. İsmet Akça was a consultant and nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the Turkish military’s economy and civil-military relations in Turkey. Prior to joining Carnegie, he was assistant professor at the Department of Political Science
Learn MoreDina graduated from The American University in Cairo (AUC) in 2008, Had her MSc (2009) and PhD (2017) from University of Sussex, UK. Her doctoral research is on the economics of young women in Egypt. Dina is an assistant professor of economics at The American University in Cairo. In addition to her gender research, Dina
Learn MoreMark is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the George Washington University, where he studies comparative politics, Middle East politics, and political violence. Prior to GW, Mark earned an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a B.A. in
Learn MoreMahdouh Almuneir is chairman of the International Academy for Studies and Development, director of the Arab Center for Studies (Cairo), managing editor of the Minbar Al-Sharq magazine, and human development expert and trainer at UNESCO. https://en.eipss-eg.org/author/mamdouh-almuneir/
Learn MoreSeth is the Advocacy Officer at POMED. Previously, he served as the program manager and research associate at the Center for International Policy’s (CIP) Security Assistance Monitor program, where he focused on U.S. security assistance and arms sales policy. Among others, he has authored articles and publications on U.S. security assistance to Palestine, Yemen, and
Learn MoreWilliam D. Hartung is the director of the Arms and Security Program at CIP and a senior adviser to the center’s Security Assistance Monitor. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books, 2011) and the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next...
Learn MoreGeneive Abdo is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, where she specializes in Iraq, Iran, and Shia-Sunni relations. She is also a lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Her current research focuses on the shifting political and religious alliances within Shia communities in the Middle East. She
Learn MoreJean Langlois, Phd, is a quantitative economist and engineer working notably on emerging markets’ economies and quantitative modelling . Former visiting researcher at CEDEJ (Cairo), ULB’s department of informatics and econometrics (Bruxelles) and non-resident fellow of CREAD (Algiers). Currently he teaches at SciencesPo (Paris) and does research at CEDAR (Ecole Polytechnique and...
Learn MoreScott Williamson is an incoming postdoctoral fellow focusing on authoritarianism and migration in the Middle East at New York University Abu Dhabi.
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