Omer Karasapan

Omer Karasapan is the Middle East and North Africa Region’s Knowledge and Learning Coordinator. Previously he was the Knowledge Coordinator for the PREM Network and has also worked in the World Bank’s Private Sector Development Department, as well as in the Private Participation in Infrastructure Division. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1989, he

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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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Noha Aboueldahab

Noha Aboueldahab is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. Her research focus is on transitional justice in the Arab region. Her book, Transitional Justice and the Prosecution of Political Leaders in the Arab Region: A comparative study of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen (Oxford, Hart Publishing: 2017), challenges mainstream transitional justice practice and

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Elissa Miller

Elissa Miller is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, where she focuses on political and security developments in Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt. She previously served as an assistant director in the Hariri Center working on North Africa research and programming. Miller is currently a master of arts

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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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Belal Abdallah

Belal Abdallah is an Egyptian scholar who currently writes MA thesis on tribalism in Libya. His writings cover Egyptian domestic and foreign policy. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/al-azhar-s-role-abroad-signs-of-escalation-and-efforts-to-undermine-2

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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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Heinrich Matthee

Heinrich Matthee is a political analyst for companies and NGOs and a guest researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Amsterdam. He has worked as a senior researcher in African security at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), as editor of the Emirates Occasional Papers at the Emirates Centre for Strategic

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Osama Diab

Osama Diab is a Nonresident Fellow focusing on development and economic issues who is currently completing his Ph.D. in political science with the Middle East and North Africa Research Group at Ghent University in Belgium. Besides his academic research, Mr. Diab is also a researcher, advocate, and campaigner at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

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