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.
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...