Yasmin El-Rifae

Yasmin 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

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Jayson Casper

Jayson 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

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Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim

Ahmed 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

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Yahia Shawkat

Yahia 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

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Hassan Mneimneh

Hassan 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;

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Samer Mosis

Samer 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

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Oleg Svet

Dr. 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

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Omar Shaban

Director. 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

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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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