Haid Haid

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Bio

Haid Haid is a non-resident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative and a consulting research fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. Previously, Haid was a programme manager focusing on Syria and Iraq at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Middle East Office in Beirut. He has also worked as a senior protection assistant at UNHCR’s Damascus office.

His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in sociology, a postgraduate diploma in counselling, and two master’s degrees—one in social development and another in conflict resolution. He also holds a PhD in war studies. His interdisciplinary research interests include governance, security, peacebuilding, and political economy.

Haid’s analysis has been featured in many research and media outlets including Chatham House, CNN, The Guardian, BBC, Channel 4, among others.

Research Areas (3-4 max)

Conflict resolution
Political economy
Governance
Justice and accountability

Countries of Focus (3-4 max)

Syria
Lebanon
GCC

Other Areas of Interest (3-4 max)

Post-Conflict recovery
Institutional reform
Regional security

Education

D., Governance, King’s College London, 2020
A., Conflict Resolution, King’s College London, 2016
A., Social Development, Damascus University, 2009

B.A., Sociology, Aleppo University, 2005

Articles

The First 100 Days: Trump's Middle East Policy Revisited

In this Council Views, experts from the ME Council reflect on the past 100 days of the new Trump administration's disruptive foreign policy, unpacking what recent changes mean for MENA and how states are responding—from USAID and State Department cuts, to the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks, to Gulf states’ posturing ahead of the president’s expected visit

Hamidreza Azizi, Mouin Rabbani, Rory Miller, Frédéric Schneider, Haid Haid, Paul Dyer, Dalia Ghanem, Özge Genç, Rashid Al-Mohanadi, Adel Abdel Ghafar, Yahia H. Zoubir, Faozi Al-Goidi, Nader S. Kabbani, Mahjoob Zweiri