Justin Dargin is a senior visiting fellow at the Middle East Council of Global Affairs. He has worked extensively on a multitude of issues relating to the intersection of the global and Middle East energy sectors, geopolitics, and climate change. As a senior MENA energy and climate scholar at the University of Oxford, Dargin’s research… Continue reading Justin Dargin
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Ahmed Morsy
Ahmed Morsy is a visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, where he works on the Middle East and Horn of Africa interconnected geopolitical, security, and economic dynamics. His research interests include foreign and security policies in the Middle East, as well as political reforms in the Arab world. Morsy is also… Continue reading Ahmed Morsy
Jin Liangxiang
Jin Liangxiang is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is also a senior research fellow at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). Liangxiang specializes in Middle Eastern-international relations, with a particular focus on Iran’s foreign policy and domestic politics. He also conducts research on China’s relations with… Continue reading Jin Liangxiang
Mahjoob Zweiri
Mahjoob Zweiri is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is a professor of contemporary politics and history of the Middle East at Qatar University, with a focus on Iran and the Gulf region. Previously, Zweiri was the director of the Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University from 2018 until 2024. Prior to… Continue reading Mahjoob Zweiri
Afyare A. Elmi
Afyare A. Elmi is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is also a research professor at the City University of Mogadishu and a senior research fellow at the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Somalia. Previously, Elmi was the executive director of the Heritage Institute for Policy… Continue reading Afyare A. Elmi
Mirdef Alqashouti
Mirdef Alqashouti is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is a counselor at Qatar’s Embassy to Belgium. A diplomat since 2008, Alqashouti has worked in several capitals across the world, holding bilateral and multilateral cooperation tasks. He was a member on the taskforce of Afghanistan peace process. Prior, he… Continue reading Mirdef Alqashouti
Alhala Alkuwari
Alhala H. Alkuwari is a junior visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. She is also a teaching associate in politics at the Community College of Qatar (CCQ). Alkuwari is a graduate from the Queen Mary University of London with a master’s degree in international relations. Previously, Alkuwari worked as a researcher… Continue reading Alhala Alkuwari
Abdulaziz Al-Sulaiti
Abdulaziz Al-Sulaiti is a junior visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is a third secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Sulaiti is a recent graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., with a master’s degree in strategy, cybersecurity, and intelligence. Previously, Al-Sulaiti was… Continue reading Abdulaziz Al-Sulaiti
Mohannad T. Al-Suwaidan
Mohannad T. Al-Suwaidan is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is the head of natural gas liquids (NGL) and chief Middle East and Africa analyst at ESAI Energy in Boston. Al-Suwaidan research examines energy markets, trade relations between different states, and state-citizens relations within rentier states, focusing on the… Continue reading Mohannad T. Al-Suwaidan
Aisha Al-Sarihi
Aisha Al-Sarihi is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. She is a research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and a nonresident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Al-Sarihi’s areas of research include political economy, environmental sustainability, energy policy, renewables, and climate policies,… Continue reading Aisha Al-Sarihi
June Park
June Park is a visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. She is also a fellow with the Digital Euro Association, an inaugural Asia fellow of the International Strategy Forum at Schmidt Futures, and a nonresident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research in Washington, D.C. Park is a political… Continue reading June Park
Yasmina Abouzzohour
Yasmina Abouzzohour is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and a research scholar and lecturer in Politics at Princeton University, where she teaches courses on political and economic development. She is also a senior nonresident fellow at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis and previously served as a research fellow… Continue reading Yasmina Abouzzohour
Mashaell Al-Shammari
Mashael Al-Shammari was a junior visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. She is a recent graduate from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar with a master’s degree in history. Al-Shammari’s research interests include women empowerment in sharia law, the origins of statehood in Islam, and the development of Islamic… Continue reading Mashaell Al-Shammari
Faozi Al-Goidi
Faozi Al-Goidi is a junior visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is a recent graduate from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar with a master’s degree in history. Al-Goidi’s research interests include democratization in Islam, social movements and nonstate actors, along with conflict resolution. At the Middle East… Continue reading Faozi Al-Goidi
Beverley Milton Edwards
Beverley Milton-Edwards is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. Her research focuses on contemporary politics in the Middle East, Political Islam, and Security. She is also a Senior Policy Advisor and Mediator with more than 20 years of experience advising the European Union and different governments, including Qatar’s Ministry… Continue reading Beverley Milton Edwards
Dania Thafer
Dania Thafer is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and the executive director of the Gulf International Forum in Washington, D.C. She is also a professorial lecturer at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Previously, she worked at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia… Continue reading Dania Thafer
Marc Owen Jones
Marc Owen Jones is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is an associate professor of media analytics at Northwestern University in Qatar. His recent work has focused on how social media has been used to spread disinformation and fake news in the Middle East. He published a book… Continue reading Marc Owen Jones
Tarik M. Yousef
Tarik M. Yousef is a senior fellow and director of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. Prior, he served as senior fellow and director of the Brookings Doha Center and was a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is a research fellow with the… Continue reading Tarik M. Yousef
Nader S. Kabbani
Nader Kabbani is a senior fellow and director of research at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and a research fellow with the Economic Research Forum based in Cairo, Egypt. A development researcher and practitioner with over 20 years’ experience, Kabbani previously served as director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and as… Continue reading Nader S. Kabbani
Paul Dyer
Paul Dyer is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He has over 20 years of research and policy analysis experience on governance and economic development issues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Dyer’s work has focused on labor market policy and youth development, small and medium… Continue reading Paul Dyer
Robert P. Beschel Jr.
Robert P. Beschel Jr. is a senior nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council). He consults as senior advisor on governance and public sector management for the World Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and several leading management consulting firms. Beschel’s areas of research include governance and public sector management, economic development, fiscal… Continue reading Robert P. Beschel Jr.
Ranj Alaaldin
Ranj Alaaldin is a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He was previously a nonresident fellow at the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. and a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Alaaldin is a foreign policy specialist looking at issues of international security, good governance, climate-related security challenges,… Continue reading Ranj Alaaldin
Adel Abdel Ghafar
Adel Abdel Ghafar is a fellow and director of the Foreign Policy and Security program at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He was previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program and a fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, where he was also acting director of research. Abdel Ghafar is… Continue reading Adel Abdel Ghafar