Middle East and North Africa Experts
Professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo, and Chairman of the Board, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies
A longtime human rights activist, he is keenly interested in the democratization of the Arab world.
Counselor for International Strategy, Chevron Corporation; Chairman, Eurasia Foundation; Former White House NIS Ombudsman and Counselor to U.S. Department of Commerce
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephanie Kaplan is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at MIT. Her research focuses on Islamist extremism and U.S. counterterrorism policy. Kaplan's dissertation, "The Jihad Effect: How Wars Feed the Global Jihadist Movement," explores the impact of war on the jihadist terrorist threat from the Soviet-Afghan W...
Director, Islam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Editor-at-large, The Daily Star
Assistant Professor of International Relations and International Communication, School of International Service, American University
Growing up in Lebanon, I witnessed firsthand the advent of the Arab information revolution and the ensuing shifts in inter-Arab and Arab-Western relations. In 1994 I began researching the cultural implications of this phenomenon for my Ph.D. dissertation, using ethnographic fieldwork and television criticism to understand young people's interaction with global, regional and local popular culture i...
President, The International Quranic Center
EducationB.A. Arabic Languages, College of Arabic Language, Al-Azhar University; M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) Islamic History, College of Arabic Language, Al-Azhar UniversityExperienceFounder and President of the International Quranic Center, Springfield, VA, 2006-presentCo-founder and Interim President of Center for Islamic Pluralism, Washington D.C., 2004Moderator, Weekly Conference of Ibn Khald...
Historian, analyst, negotiator, and former advisor to Republican and Democratic Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations, 1978-2003.
Aaron David Miller is currently the Vice President for New Initiatives and a Distinguished Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Between 2006 and 2008, he was a Public Policy Scholar when he wrote his fourth book The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008). His other books include The Arab States and the Palestine Questi...
Independent Journalist and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
A long-time reporter for the Washington Post, Murphy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting for her coverage of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait and subsequent 1990-91 Gulf War.While at the Post, Murphy served twice as a foreign correspondent, first in Southern Africa during the tumultuous era that followed the Soweto uprising and police sla...