Senior Fellows
Senior Fellow
Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the 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 and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of postconflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.
Director
Middle East Center
Yahya is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.
Resident Scholars
Director of Communications and Fellow
Carnegie Middle East Center
Mohanad Hage Ali is the director of communications and a fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Resident Scholar
Carnegie Middle East Center
Co-Director
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Dalia Ghanem is a resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and the co-director for gender-related work for the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States, where her work examines political and extremist violence, radicalization, Islamism, and jihadism with an emphasis on Algeria.
Nonresident Scholars
Nonresident ScholarCarnegie Middle East Center
Armenak Tokmajyan is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research focuses on borders and conflict, Syrian refugees, and local intermediaries in Syria.
Research ManagerProgram on Civil-Military Relations in Arab StatesCarnegie Middle East Center
Neven Bondokji is the research manager for the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center. Her research focuses on violent extremism in the Middle East and North Africa, the relation between human security and hard security, and ideological transformations within Islamic political parties.
Nonresident Fellow
Carnegie Middle East Center
Bader Mousa Al-Saif is a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his research focuses on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula.
Commissioning Editor
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Nathan Toronto is the commissioning editor for the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center. His research and practitioner work focus on civil-military relations, battlefield effectiveness, military recruitment and education, and Middle East security, especially in the Gulf region.
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Hamza Meddeb is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on economic reform, political economy of conflicts, and border insecurity across the Middle East and North Africa.
Editor, Diwan
Senior Editor, Carnegie Middle East Center
Michael Young is the editor of Diwan and a senior editor at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Ahmed Nagi is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his research centers on Yemen.
Senior Advisor
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Aram Nerguizian is senior advisor of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his work focuses on the Lebanese security sector, long-term force transformation in the Levant, and efforts to develop national security institutions in post-conflict and divided societies.
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Carnegie Middle East Center
Harith Hasan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on Iraq, sectarianism, identity politics, religious actors, and state-society relations.
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.
Visiting Scholars
El-ERIAN FELLOW
Carnegie Middle East Center
Lydia Assouad is the El-Erian fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center where her research focuses on public and political economics.
