Amr El-Shokabi

Amr El-Shobaki is a former member of the Egyptian parliament. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including Les Frères Musulmans des Origines à Nos Jours (Khartala, 2009); The Crisis of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 2008); and Islamists and Democrats: The Problems of

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Geoffrey Aronson

Geoffrey Aronson writes about Middle East affairs. He consults with a variety of public and private institutions dealing with regional political, security, and development issues. He has advised the World Bank on Israel’s disengagement and has worked for the European Union Coordinating Office for the Palestinian Police Support mission to the West Bank and Gaza.

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Paul Salem

Paul Salem is senior vice president for policy research and programs at The Middle East Institute. He focuses on issues of political change, transition, and conflict as well as the regional and international relations of the Middle East. He has a particular emphasis on the countries of the Levant and Egypt. Salem writes regularly in

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Maria Golia

Maria Golia, an American writer, has lived in downtown Cairo for over two decades. She is the author of Cairo, City of Sand and Photography and Egypt (Reaktion Books, UK, 2004, 2010), non-fiction works involving extensive historical research alongside an intimate understanding of the country’s present moment. Long-time columnist for the Lebanon Daily Star and

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Achment Gonim

Achment Gonim (Bsc, MA) is a senior political and security risk analyst at a London-based risk management firm that works with governmental and non-governmental developmental agencies as well as multinational corporations. Gonim’s work has focused more widely on the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa regions with a particular focus on Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria

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Sameena Hameed

Dr. Sameena Hameed is Assistant Professor in the Gulf Studies Programme, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her areas of specialization include West Asian Economy and India’s economic relations with West Asia and Energy Security issues. She also prepares research papers and study reports for Public Diplomacy Division, Indian Ministry of

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Mona Ezzat

Mona Ezzat is the director of the work and women’s program at the New Woman Foundation. Several of her studies on the economic and social rights of workingwomen have been published through Egyptian and regional platforms. https://www.madamasr.com/en/contributor/mona-ezzat/

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Wael Gamal

Wael Gamal is an Egyptian journalist, researcher and trainer with 17 years of journalism experience. He co-founded Al-Shorouk daily newspaper in October 2008, first as head of its economy desk, then as managing editor from October 2009 to October 2013. He became Al-Shorouk’s director of planning and training and senior economic reporter between October 2013

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Thanassis Cambanis

Thanassis Cambanis is an author, journalist and fellow at The Century Foundation, who specializes in the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. He is co-director of TCF’s “Arab Politics beyond the Uprisings.” His most recent book, Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story (Simon and Schuster: 2015), chronicles Egyptian efforts to create a new political

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Jonathan Guyer

Jonathan Guyer is a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs and contributing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. From 2012 to 2013, he served as a Fulbright fellow researching political cartoons in Egypt. A regular contributor to Public Radio International, he has written for The Guardian, Guernica, Harper’s, Le Monde Diplomatique,

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