Author » Shadi Hamid
Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Project on Middle East Democracy. His articles on U.S. foreign policy and Middle East politics have appeared in the Carnegie Endowment's Arab Reform Bulletin, The Christian Science Monitor, The Jerusalem Post, The American Prospect and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. His most recent publication is a policy report for the Progressive Policy Institute on "Engaging Political Islam to Promote Democracy." He writes for the National Security Network's foreign affairs blog Democracy Arsenal, and is an associate of the Truman National Security Project. Previously, he served as a program specialist on public diplomacy at the State Department as well as a Legislative Fellow at the Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein. As a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan and a Boren Fellow in Egypt, Hamid conducted extensive research on the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Action Front. He has been a consultant to various organizations on political reform in the Arab world, and has appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR, Voice of America, and the BBC.