Contributor Bio
DA Contributor Bio
Shadi Hamidshadi.hamid@pomed.org | |
| Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), a Washington, D.C-based nonprofit dedicated to examining how genuine democracies can develop in the Middle East and how the US can best support that process. His articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Jerusalem Post, The New Republic, The American Prospect, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and many other publications. He writes for the National Security Network’s foreign affairs blog Democracy Arsenal and is an associate of the Truman National Security Project. Previously, Hamid served as a program specialist on public diplomacy initiatives at the State Department and a Legislative Fellow at the Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein, where he worked on foreign affairs. As a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan and a Boren Fellow in Egypt, he conducted extensive research on Islamist participation in the democratic process. He has been a consultant to various organizations on reform-related issues in the Arab world, and has appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR, Voice of America, and the BBC. He received his MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, where he was a David L. Boren Fellow. Hamid is a Marshall Scholar and PhD candidate in politics at Oxford University, writing his dissertation on Islamist electoral behavior in Egypt and Jordan. | |
