Profile

Associate professor in international conflict resolution at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, a fellow at the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College, USA, and non-resident fellow at Deakin University’s Middle East Studies Forum in Australia. He previously served as senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, and taught conflict resolution at Georgetown University and George Washington University. His latest book publications include: Conflict Mediation in the Arab World (Syracuse University Press 2023), Rebel Governance in the Middle East (Palgrave 2023), Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Some of his articles appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera websites, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of George Mason University's Distinguished Alumni Award (2014) for his achievements in the field of conflict resolution.