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Middle East Program

Carnegie’s Middle East expertise combines in-depth local knowledge with incisive comparative analysis to examine economic, sociopolitical, and strategic interests in the Arab world. Through detailed country studies and the exploration of key crosscutting themes, the Middle East program in Washington and the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut provide analysis and recommendations in English and Arabic that are deeply informed by knowledge and views from the region. Carnegie has special expertise in the dynamics of political, economic, societal and geopolitical change in Egypt, the Gulf, Iran, Israel/Palestine and North Africa; and Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

About the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

The Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center is an independent policy research institute based in Beirut, Lebanon, and part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The center provides in-depth analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and security issues facing the Middle East and North Africa. It draws its scholarship from a pool of top regional experts, working in collaboration with Carnegie’s other research centers in Asia, Brussels, New Delhi, and Washington.

  • Rafiah Al Talei

    Editor-in-Chief, Sada
    Middle East Program

    Rafiah Al Talei is the editor-in-chief for Sada in Carnegie’s Middle East Program.

  • Nathan J. Brown

    Nonresident Senior Fellow
    Middle East Program

    Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six well-received books on Arab politics.

  • Justin Dargin

    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Program

    Justin Dargin is a nonresident scholar in the Middle East Program who has extensive experience working on a multitude of issues relating to the global and Middle East/North Africa energy sectors, geopolitical affairs, climate change, emergent carbon markets, and regional industrialization.

  • Michele Dunne

    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Program

    Michele Dunne is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East.

  • Yasmine Farouk

    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Program

    Yasmine Farouk is a nonresident scholar in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

  • Amr Hamzawy

    Director
    Middle East Program

    Amr Hamzawy is a senior fellow and the director of the Carnegie Middle East Program. His research and writings focus on governance in the Middle East and North Africa, social vulnerability, and the different roles of governments and civil societies in the region.

  • Zaha Hassan

    Fellow
    Middle East Program

    Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

  • H. A. Hellyer

    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Program

    Dr. H.A. Hellyer is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He serves as a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London, and as a Cambridge University fellow.

  • Marwan Muasher

    Vice President for Studies

    Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.

  • Karim Sadjadpour

    Senior Fellow
    Middle East Program

    Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East.

  • Yezid Sayigh

    Senior Fellow
    Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

    Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces, the impact of war on states and societies, the politics of postconflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.

  • Jake Walles

    Nonresident Senior Fellow
    Middle East Program

    Jake Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism.

  • Frederic Wehrey

    Senior Fellow
    Middle East Program

    Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on governance, conflict, and security in Libya, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf.

  • Maha Yahya

    Director
    Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

    Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.

  • Sarah Yerkes

    Senior Fellow
    Middle East Program

    Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.

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