About Carnegie Middle East Center

 

The Carnegie Middle East Center is a public policy think tank and research center based in Beirut, Lebanon. It was established in November 2006 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Middle East Center draws on the successful experience of Carnegie's Moscow Center, established in 1994, and also runs parallel to new Carnegie initiatives in Beijing and Brussels.

 

The Middle East Center is concerned with the challenges facing political and economic development in the Arab World, Turkey and Iran. It brings together senior local researchers from the region to work on in-depth research relating to critical matters facing the countries and peoples of the region. The center aims to better inform the process of political change in the Arab Middle East and deepen understanding of the complex economic and security issues that affect it.

The Carnegie Middle East Center is part of Carnegie's well-established Middle East Program and will build on standards and approaches the program has developed. Its work is further enriched by project-specific collaborations with Carnegie scholars in Washington, Moscow, and Beijing as well as with a wide variety of research centers within the Middle East and Europe. This distinctive approach provides policy makers, practitioners, and activists in all countries with analysis and recommendations that are deeply informed by knowledge and views from the region, enhancing the prospects for effectively addressing its particular challenges.

The Carnegie Middle East Center's focus is on policy-relevant, empirical research on key political and socio-economic issues. It aims to reach a number of constituencies, including policy makers, practitioners, academics and journalists as well as international organizations, civil society actors, and ordinary citizens in Middle Eastern countries who may benefit from the center’s work.

An advisory council comprised of distinguished national and international leaders from the policy, business, expert, and civil society sectors of countries across the Middle East provides the center with advice and support.

Advisory Council

  • HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal

    Chairman
    King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
  • Dr. Khaled M. Al-Fayez

    Chief Executive Officer, Retired
    Gulf International Bank B.S.C.–Bahrain
  • His Excellency Abdlatif Al-Hamad

    Director General
    Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
  • Ms. Umit Nazli Boyner

    Executive Director
    Boyner Holding A.S. and
    President, TÜSIAD
  • Mr. Ibrahim Dabdoub

    Chief Executive Officer
    National Bank of Kuwait
  • Mr. Richard Debs

    Advisory Director
    Morgan Stanley
  • Mr. Majid Jafar

    CEO
    Crescent Petroleum
  • Dr. Rima Khalaf

    Visiting Scholar
    Harvard Kennedy School
  • Mr. Samer Khoury

    Executive Vice President, Operations
    Consolidated Contractors International Company S.A.L.
  • Dr. Bassma Kodmani

    Executive Director
    Arab Reform Initiative
  • Mr. Terry Meguid

    Founding Partner
    Perella Weinberg Partners LP
  • Ms. Hutham S. Olayan

    President and CEO
    Olayan America Corporation
  • Mr. Nassef Sawiris

    Director and CEO
    OCI (UK) LTD
  • Mr. Mahmoud Shammam

    Managing Editor, Newsweek (Arabic edition)
    Bureau Chief, Foreign Policy
 

Center Staff

 

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Fax: +961 1 99 15 91
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Carnegie Middle East Experts

  • Suzanne Abourjeili
    Visiting Scholar
    Middle East Center

    Abourjeili is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where she works on the education reform project in collaboration with Muhammad Faour.

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  • Lahcen Achy
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Achy is an economist with expertise in development, institutional economics, trade, and labor and a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

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  • Anas El Gomati
    Visiting Fellow
    Carnegie Middle East Center

    El Gomati is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on socioeconomics, democratic governance, the security sector, and political Islam in Libya.

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  • Muhammad Faour
    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Center

    Faour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on education reform in Arab countries with an emphasis on citizenship education.

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  • Sami Moubayed
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Middle East Center

    Moubayed, a political analyst and historian, focuses his research on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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  • Paul Salem
    Director and Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Salem is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. He works and publishes on the regional and international relations of the Middle East as well as issues of political development and democratization in the Arab world.

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  • Yezid Sayigh
    Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the Syrian crisis, the political role of Arab armies, security sector transformation in Arab transitions, the reinvention of authoritarianism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process.

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