General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI). Bishara is a leading Arab researcher and intellectual with numerous books and academic publications on political thought, social theory and philosophy. He was named by Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire as one of the world’s most influential thinkers. His publications in Arabic include Civil Society: A Critical Study (1996); From the Jewishness of the State to Sharon (2004); On The Arab Question: An Introduction to an Arab Democratic Manifesto (2007); To Be an Arab in Our Times (2009); On Revolution and Susceptibility to Revolution (2012); Religion and Secularism in Historical Context (in 3 vols., 2013, 2015); The Army and Political Power in the Arab Context: Theoretical Problems (2017); The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh): A General Framework and Critical Contribution to Understanding the Phenomenon (2018); What is Populism? (2019) and Democratic Transition and its Problems: Theoretical Lessons from Arab Experiences (2020). Some of these works have become key references within their respective field. His latest publication titled The Question of the State: Philosophy, Theory, and Context (2023).

Bishara’s English publications include Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice (Hurst, 2022); On Salafism: Concepts and Contexts (Stanford University Press, 2022); Sectarianism without Sects (Oxford University Press, 2021), among other writings. His trilogy on the Arab revolutions, published by I.B. Tauris, consists of Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia (2021); Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution (2022); and Syria 2011-2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem (2023), in which he provides a theoretical analysis in addition to a rich, comprehensive and lucid assessment of the revolutions in three Arab countries: Tunisia, Egypt and Syria.

Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

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ACRPS researcher and managing editor of Siyasaat Arabiya journal. Previously served as assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Damascus. He obtained a PhD in International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests focus on theories of international relations.

Coordinator of the Graphic Design Unit at the ACRPS. He has previously worked as a graphic designer and taught at several training centers. He is charged with the design of all the center’s outputs, including books, periodicals, paraphernalia, the website, and social media platforms.

Finance Manager at the ACRPS. Before joining the Arab Center, she worked in the finance department at Zain Group in Jordan, then as finance director for Silatech in Qatar. She holds a bachelor’s degree with distinction in Accounting from Applied Science University in Jordan, in addition to several professional courses on financial management for non-profit organizations, effective budget management, and financial planning.

Administrative Supervisor for Human Resources at the ACRPS. She holds a BA from Al-Neelain University in Khartoum. She has worked in management, human resources, printing and publishing for more than twenty years.

Coordinator of the Sales, Warehousing and Distribution Unit for the Center's publications in Qatar. He holds a Diploma in Software Engineering from Aptech Computer Education Center.

Coordinator for the Human Resources Department at the ACRPS. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Lebanese University and has been working in HR since 2011.

Administrative assistant at the ACRPS. She holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Ibn Zohr University in Morocco.

Head of the Editing department at the ACRPS. He holds a PhD in International Relations and Middle East Studies from Sakarya University in Turkey. He obtained a Master’s degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from Pune University in India, and has worked as a researcher and senior editor at a number of research centers, including the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi (1998-2012), and the Middle East Studies Center in Amman (1994-1997). His published works include Turkey: An Ambitious Strategy and Constrained Policy, a Geopolitical Approach(2015). His research interests focus on Geopolitics, International Relations and Turkish Studies.

Senior Arabic editor at the ACRPS. She holds a BA from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manouba University in Tunis. Previously, she served as a senior proofreader for the Al Jazeera Children’s Channel and the Baraem Channel, and a supervisor at the Qatar News Agency children’s website. Fayech also worked as a proofreader and translator with Al Jazeera Documentary, the Al Jazeera Center for Studies and French and English production companies.

Arabic editor at the ACRPS. Holds a master's degree in Arabic language, Literature and Civilization from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sfax University, Tunisia. He worked as an Arabic language teacher in several Tunisian secondary schools and institutes.

Editor at the ACRPS. He holds an MA Degree in Arabic Literature and is currently enrolled on a PhD program. Samhouri has authored many papers covering issues in Islamic theology and jurisprudence.

Editor at the ACRPS, holds a degree in Arabic Language and Literature from the Faculty of Arts, Kairouan University, Tunisia. He worked as an Arabic language teacher at Tunisian high schools for more than twenty-seven years.

Assistant Editor, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. He obtained an MA in Development Economics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests focus on the political economy of the Middle East.

Director of the Unit for Political Studies of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.

Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

ACRPS researcher and managing editor of Siyasaat Arabiya journal. Previously served as assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Damascus. He obtained a PhD in International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests focus on theories of international relations.

Researcher at the ACRPS. She earned a PhD in French literature from Savoy University in France. A former UN expert, she has held several media positions at the UN Department of Global Communications in New York, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Sudan, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), then as a media consultant at the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) for the Arab states in Cairo. She has published several peer-reviewed articles on UN work.

Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Ostour journal for historical studies. She received a PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter where she worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science and was also awarded a Visiting Researcher fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She holds a BA in History and Political Science and an MA in Arab-Islamic History from Birzeit University.

Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Editorial secretary of Siyasaat Arabiya journal. He has holds a master’s degree in international studies from Birzeit University and a master’s of public policy from the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies. His research interests are centered on public policy.

​Wadha al-Hajri is a research assistant at the ACRPS. She holds a BA in International Affairs from Qatar University, where she also worked with the al-Jazeera for Children Program. She has participated in a number of international conferences on interfaith and women’s empowerment issues. Her research interests include the study of the Qatari national identity and the effect collective memory has had on its formation. She has also completed a number of professional development workshops with Qatar’s Supreme Council for the Family and its Permanent Committee on Elections, particularly in their “training of trainers” series.

Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, head of the center’s research department, and editor-in-chief of the Siyasaat Arabiya Journal. Saeed contributed to the “National Report on Human Development in Iraq” in 2014 and his research interests surround Iraq and divided societies.

Associate researcher and former head of the research department at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, currently holding the position of academic editor for the Center. He is specialized in modern Syrian social and political history. He has worked as both a manager and consultant on several UNDP projects in Syria. His research focuses on education, human development, population development, Syrian migration abroad, and the future prospects of development paths. Among his most recent publications are The Past Decade in Syria: the Dialectic of Stagnation and Reform and The Ottoman-Safavid Conflict and its Impact on Shiites in the Levant.

​Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

Director of the Unit for Political Studies of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.

Associate researcher and editor-in-chief of Istishraf journal for future studies. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg in 2003, with a thesis on “Corporate Culture and Evolutionary Economics”. He also worked as a Professor of Economics at the same university and as an Associate Professor of Economics at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech. His research interests focus on political economy, the knowledge economy, political philosophy, social justice and recognition.

ACRPS researcher and managing editor of Siyasaat Arabiya journal. Previously served as assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Damascus. He obtained a PhD in International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests focus on theories of international relations.

Researcher at the ACRPS. She earned a PhD in French literature from Savoy University in France. A former UN expert, she has held several media positions at the UN Department of Global Communications in New York, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Sudan, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), then as a media consultant at the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) for the Arab states in Cairo. She has published several peer-reviewed articles on UN work.

​Abdou Moussa Abdou is a researcher in Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, focusing on political development, democratic reform and preserving human rights in Egypt and the Arab Region. Along the last two decades, he offered consultancy to international assistance organizations including UNDP and Canadian International Development Agency, in projects related with public policy reform, and sustainable development.
Abdou gained interdisciplinary knowledge with specific focus to Arab region and its international relations, which compiles political change to social development, public policy reform, building good governance mechanisms, as well as political unification and regional studies.
Abdou conducted a number of researches about Egypt’s educational development. While working as Research Director with an Egyptian human rights organization, he delivered academic support to research teams working in areas of economic and social rights, as well as post-revolution democratic change in Egypt.
Currently, he is working on a book about Egyptian Revolution of Jan 25th. He had a Masters’ degree thesis in Political Science that studied the “European identity politics and its impact on Euro-Mediterranean relationships”.

Researcher and editor of the Omran journal at the ACRPS. He previously worked as an academic assistant at the University of Birzeit, from where he received a master's degree in contemporary Arab studies. He has a PhD in international development from the University of Oxford. His research interests focus on a wide range of political and sociological topics. His published works include his book, Transformations of the Concept of Arab Nationalism.

ACRPS Researcher. Holds an MSc in Digital Sociology from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Sociology from Durham University, UK. Her research interests focus on theories of democracy, political culture, social and political transformations, critical pedagogy, and dialogue between modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism.

Assistant Researcher at the ACRPS and Editorial Secretary of the historical studies journal Ostour and the future studies yearbook Istishraf. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests concern political thought and the history of ideas.

Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Editorial secretary of Siyasaat Arabiya journal. He has holds a master’s degree in international studies from Birzeit University and a master’s of public policy from the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies. His research interests are centered on public policy.

Research Assistant at the ACRPS. She holds an MA in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and an MA in Arabic Language, Literature and Culture from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia. Her research interests focus on anthropology, social and human sciences curricula, and Islamic studies.

Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Ostour journal for historical studies. She received a PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter where she worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science and was also awarded a Visiting Researcher fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She holds a BA in History and Political Science and an MA in Arab-Islamic History from Birzeit University.

Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

Data Analyst working on the Arab Opinion Index at the ACRPS. He obtained a batchelor’s degree in MIS from Zarqa Private University in Jordan. Prior to joining the Center, he worked with the University of Jordan’s Center for Strategic Studies as a data analyst and field supervisor.

Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and editor-in-chief of the Siyasaat Arabiya Journal. Saeed contributed to the “National Report on Human Development in Iraq” 2014. His research interests are concentrated in Iraq and divided societies.

Associate researcher and editor-in-chief of Istishraf journal for future studies. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg in 2003, with a thesis on “Corporate Culture and Evolutionary Economics”. He also worked as a Professor of Economics at the same university and as an Associate Professor of Economics at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech. His research interests focus on political economy, the knowledge economy, political philosophy, social justice and recognition.

Professor of Philosophy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Editor of Tabayyun, the Journal for Cultural Studies and Philosophy. Bahlul has taught at several universities, including Yarmouk (Jordan), Indiana-Purdue (US), Bir Zeit (Palestine), UAE (UAE), and Qatar (Qatar). His research focuses around the concept of identity andsameness, in the context of contemporary discussions of metaphysics and with reference to Leibniz and Aristotle. At a later stage, he began to study Islamic kalam and philosophy. His interest in Islamic philosophy expanded to include contemporary Arab and Islamic thought, with special reference to the impact of Western modernity on politics and society, and issues of women, democracy, and human rights.

ACRPS researcher and managing editor of Siyasaat Arabiya journal. Previously served as assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Damascus. He obtained a PhD in International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy. His research interests focus on theories of international relations.

Researcher and editor of the Omran journal at the ACRPS. He previously worked as an academic assistant at the University of Birzeit, from where he received a master's degree in contemporary Arab studies. He has a PhD in international development from the University of Oxford. His research interests focus on a wide range of political and sociological topics. His published works include his book, Transformations of the Concept of Arab Nationalism.

​Rachid Bouteib

Assistant Researcher at the ACRPS and Editorial Secretary of the historical studies journal Ostour and the future studies yearbook Istishraf. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests concern political thought and the history of ideas.

Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Ostour journal for historical studies. She received a PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter where she worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science and was also awarded a Visiting Researcher fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She holds a BA in History and Political Science and an MA in Arab-Islamic History from Birzeit University.

Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Editorial secretary of Siyasaat Arabiya journal. He has holds a master’s degree in international studies from Birzeit University and a master’s of public policy from the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies. His research interests are centered on public policy.

Translator/Editor in the Arabic – English translation unit, and currently operating the ACRPS English Website. She holds an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She previously worked as a researcher at Al Araby Television Network, and in the humanitarian sector Jordan.

Professor of Security and Military Studies and the Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Director of the Strategic Studies Unit at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. Professor Ashour is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements(Routledge, 2009) and How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and the editor of Bullets to Ballots: Collective De-Radicalisation of Armed Movements (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). He was a tenured faculty member at the University of Exeter (UK) for ten years (2008-2018) and lectured at McGill University (Canada) for two years (2006-2008). He previously served as a senior consultant for the United Nations on counter-terrorism, security sector reform, and de-radicalization issues and a research fellow at Chatham House (UK) and the Brookings Institution (US). He specialises in small state defence; military adaptations, innovations and transformations; asymmetric, conventional, irregular and hybrid warfare; combat and military effectiveness; weapon systems analysis; counterinsurgency and counterterrorism; radicalisation and collective de-radicalisation and transformations from violence to non-violence.

Assistant Professor in Critical Security Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK). His research focuses on government security policies, strategy and defence studies, anti-terror policies and legislations, and securitisation of ethno-nationalist conflicts. His most recent study “Transitional Justice and counter-terrorism in Iraq”, was published in the Wolverhampton Law Journal (2019).

Assistant Professor at the Critical Security Studies program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He obtained his PhD in International Relations from the University of Algiers III. His research focuses on Critical Security Studies, International Relations Theory, and State Theories. He has written three books, including: Conflict Over the Interpretation of War and Peace: Studies on Scientific Investigation in International Relations (2019); Critical Security Studies: New Approaches to Re-define Security (2014); and The Evolution of Security Studies and the Dilemma of Application in The Arab World (2012). His many articles have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

Assistant Professor at the Critical Security Studies program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Canada. His research interests focus on foreign policy analysis, non-state actors, and MENA relationships with major powers, particularly China. He is the author of Statecraft in the Middle East: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and Security (2016), and co-editor of Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa (2020).

Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Editorial Secretary of Omran Journal. He received a Master's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests focus on democratic transition, social movements, the Arab state, and issues of identity and diaspora.

Data Scientist at ACRPS specialised in data science and machine learning. He is currently working on using data science for a better understanding of Arab public opinion. Chamseddine has been working on different AI projects for the last 5 years where he developed experience in artificial neural networks, computer vision models, recommender systems and language models. His previous experience in AI was both in theoretical research and applied machine learning. Ahmad holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal and an MD degree from the Lebanese University.

Programmer specialized in data analysis at ACRPS unit for Arab digital social space studies. Chadi holds a bachelor degree in computer engineering and telecommunication from AUB. His research interests are mainly related to computational languages and Arabic naturalism processing. He previously worked in programming at CMA and CGM.

​Laura Sayah | PhD in Education and Development Economics from Université Paris Dauphine, France and graduate studies in Strategic Negotiation from Université La Sagesse, Lebanon. She has been a university professor since 2008. Her research interests focus on issues of political economy and education economics.

Holds an MA in Media and Communication from Saint Joseph University (Beirut). Since 2014, he has been Coordinator of the Tourjouman Unit. He previously worked for the Corporate Communication Strategy Department at Renault (France).