Shadi Hamid

Shadi Hamid is Deputy Director of the Brookings Doha Center and Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, he was Director of Research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He currently serves as vice-chair of POMED’s board of directors. Hamid has conducted extensive research on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan, most recently as a resident fellow at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman. Previously, he served as a program specialist on public diplomacy at the U.S. State Department and a Legislative Fellow at the Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The New Republic, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and many other publications. Hamid writes for the National Security Network’s foreign affairs blog Democracy Arsenal and is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project.