Professional Affiliation

Author and Broadcaster

Expert Bio

Tarek Osman is the author of “Islamism: A History of Political Islam” (Yale University Press, 2017), and the internationally bestselling book “Egypt on the Brink” (Yale, 2010) which was included in Foreign Policy magazine’s top-ten books of 2011. He wrote and presented several BBC documentary series including “Minds at War” (2016), “Sands of Time: A History of Saudi Arabia” (2015), “Islam Divided: Sunni-Shii” (2015), and “The Making of the Modern Arab World” (2014). Tarek is the inaugural Senior Political Counsellor for the Arab World at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD).