Ashraf El-Sherif

Ashraf El-Sherif was a nonresident associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Based in Egypt, El-Sherif is a lecturer in political science at the American University in Cairo. He is an expert in political Islam, state-religion relations, democratic transition, social movements, and state-society relations in the

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Katie Bentivoglio

Katie Bentivoglio is the project director for Wasabi, a Tunisian media and events management company, where she works on entrepreneurship, art/culture, and civil society initiatives in Tunisia. Her experience includes working in higher education, civil society, public policy, diplomacy, and the private sector in both the United States and the MENA region. She is accustomed

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Hussein Baoumi

Hussein Baoumi is the TIMEP-Atlas Corps Bassem Sabry Democracy Fellow. Mr. Baoumi graduated with honors in political science and history from the American University in Cairo, and volunteered with several human rights groups in Egypt before joining the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) in 2013, where he became Programs Director. In addition to

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Nancy Okail

Nancy Okail is an Egyptian activist and a scholar with a focus in democracy and power relations of foreign aid. In 2013, Okail was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison in the controversial Egyptian court case against local and foreignernon-governmental organization (NGOs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Okail

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Chritstopher J. Cox

Before entering academia, Dr. Aday served as a general assignment reporter for the Kansas City Star in Kansas City, MO; the Milwaukee Journal in Milwaukee, WI; and the Greenville News in Greenville, SC. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1990.

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Carole Nakhle

Dr Nakhle is an Energy Economist, specialising in international petroleum contractual arrangements, fiscal regimes and regulations; sustainable development of the petroleum sector including revenue management and governance; capacity building; energy policy, security, investment, and market developments. http://www.crystolenergy.com/about/leadership/

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Sean Aday

Sean Aday joined The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs in 2000, after completing his Ph.D. and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His work focuses on the intersection of the press, politics, and public opinion, especially in relation to war and foreign policy.

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Deen Freelon

Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism. His research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in

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