Shadi Hamid
Shadi Hamid is director of
research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He was previously director of research
at the Project on Middle East Democracy and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford
University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He has also
served as a program specialist on public diplomacy at the U.S. State Department
and a legislative fellow in the office of Senator Diane Feinstein. Hamid is a
frequent commentator on Middle East affairs and can be followed on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/shadihamid.