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General Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Dr. Bishara is a researcher and writer with numerous books and publications on political thought, social theory and philosophy, as well as some literary works. He taught philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University from 1986 to 1996, and was involved in the establishment of research centers in Palestine including the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy (Muwatin) and the Mada al-Carmel Center for Applied Social Research. In 2007 he was forced to go into exile after being prosecuted by Israel. In 2002 he won the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought, and in 2003 the Global Exchange Human Rights Award. He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1986 at Humboldt University in Berlin, having previously completed his master’s degree there in 1984.

Dr. Bishara has published hundreds of papers and studies in academic journals in various languages. His best-known publications include: On the Arab Question: An Introduction to an Arab Democratic Manifesto; Civil Society: A Critical Study; Religion and Secularity in Historical Context (two parts in three volumes); On Revolution and Revolutionary Potential; Is There a Coptic Issue in Egypt?; To be an Arab in our Times; The Army and Politics: Theoretical Problems and Arab Models; Essay on Freedom; Sect, Sectarianism and Imagined Sects; What is Salafism?; and The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh): A General Framework and Critical Contribution to Understanding the Phenomenon. Some of these books have become seminal works in their field.

He also produced a series of three books documenting the Arab revolutions that broke out in 2011: The Glorious Tunisian Revolution; Syria: The Painful Road to Freedom; and Egypt’s Revolution (two volumes). These books deal with the causes and stages of the revolutions in Tunisia, Syria, and Egypt. These books are a rich contribution to the field of contemporary history thanks to their combination of documentation and narration of the day-to-day details of these revolutions and sharp analysis making connections between the social, economic and political backgrounds of each individual revolution.

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.

Website and Social Media Coordinator at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. She obtained a master's degree in conflict management and humanitarian work from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. She also holds a BA in Software Engineering from Qatar University and a Diploma in Public Relations and E-Marketing.

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.

​Associate Researcher, Policy Analysis Unit Coordinator

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​Ayat Hamdan is an Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Prior to joining the Center, she was an instructor at Birzeit University in the Department of History and Archaeology. She has also worked as an assistant researcher in a number of university departments. She has several publications related to the Palestinian cause, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Islamic movements, the non-governmental organizations, and international donor agencies involved in development. She holds a Master's in Arab-Islamic History from Birzeit University.

Assistant researcher at the ACRPS and secretary of the journal Siyasaat Arabia. He holds a master's degree in political science and international relations from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers and the book The Virtual Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Orientations, and Mechanisms to Create Public Opinion. His research interests relate to international and regional affairs in general and the Syrian situation in particular.

Researcher and editorial secretary for Omran journal at the ACRPS. He received a Master’s in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests focus on sociological issues within Syrian society.

​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 ACRPS. He has authored a number of books, including An Introduction to Syrian Political Life 2017; and Contemporary Arab Thinkers 2016: a Reading of the Experience of State Building and Human Rights. His research interests focus on political sociology and contemporary Syrian history.

​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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​Ayat Hamdan is an Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Prior to joining the Center, she was an instructor at Birzeit University in the Department of History and Archaeology. She has also worked as an assistant researcher in a number of university departments. She has several publications related to the Palestinian cause, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Islamic movements, the non-governmental organizations, and international donor agencies involved in development. She holds a Master's in Arab-Islamic History from Birzeit University.

Assistant Researcher at the ACRPS. Secretary of the Editor of the Siyasaat Arabiya Journal. Holds a master's degree in Public Administration from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and his research interests are focused on public policy.

Researcher at the Arab Center. She obtained a doctorate in political science from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. Her research interests focus on comparative politics and international relations, specifically Palestine, and the relationship of authoritarianism in the Arab world to American intervention.

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. His research interests focus on human rights issues and democratization in Egypt and the Arab region.

​Jamal Barout is an Associate Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, where he also is the Head of the Research Department. Barout has contributed or authored exclusively a total of 30 published books. Barout’s research work is focused on questions of modern Arab thought and modernity; education and human development; development and demographics; foreign migration from Syria; and development forecasting studies. He has worked for a number of governmental and international agencies in Syria, including as an Advisor to a number of projects run by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Syria; the UN Population Fund; and the International Migration Organization. Barout was the main author of “Syria 2025”, published in 2007 and the main author of the National Reference Report on the State of the Syrian Population. In addition, Barout has held positions at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Aleppo, where he was a Visiting Scholar from 2007 to 2010, and was a guest lecturer at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University in 2008 and was also a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

​Dr. Saifeldin Abdelfattah is a Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, where he is also the Coordinator of the Program on the Democratic Transition in the Arab Region. Abdelfattah earned his PhD from Cairo University in 1987, where he focused on Political Philosophy (Philosophy of Political Science), focusing on political theory. He later worked as a Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the same university and went on to faculty appointments at a number of other universities in the region, including Zayed University (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Qatar Foundation. Dr. Abdelfattah has also been a Visiting Professor at a number of other universities across the world, including the International Islamic University of Malaysia. Latterly, Abdelfattah was the Director of the Political Studies Center at Cairo University and Deputy Director at the Center for Civilizational Studies and Cross-Cultural Dialogue at Cairo as well as the Director of the Center for Good Governance and Public Policy at Qatar Foundation.
Abdelfattah’s most important publications include: Political Renewal and Arab Reality (1989); The Unholy March: the Nationalization of Egyptian Religion (2005); Globalization and Islam: two Visions of the World. (All in Arabic). Abdelfattah has also contributed to a number of collected volumes, including Civil Society and its Intellectual Aspects.

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.

Researcher at the ACRPS. He has authored a number of books, including An Introduction to Syrian Political Life 2017; and Contemporary Arab Thinkers 2016: a Reading of the Experience of State Building and Human Rights. His research interests focus on political sociology and contemporary Syrian history.

​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”.

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.

Assistant researcher at the ACRPS and secretary of the journal Siyasaat Arabia. He holds a master's degree in political science and international relations from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers and the book The Virtual Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Orientations, and Mechanisms to Create Public Opinion. His research interests relate to international and regional affairs in general and the Syrian situation in particular.

Assistant Researcher and editorial secretary for Tabayyun Journal at the ACRPS. He holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy from the University of Algiers 02. His research interests focus on the issues of philosophy of religion and the sacred, Hermeneutics, phenomenology, existential psychotherapy, and contemporary existential philosophy.

Assistant researcher and editor-in-chief of 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. His research interests focus on protest movements, historical sociology, spatial sociology, rural politics, and urban sociology.

Researcher and editorial secretary for Omran journal at the ACRPS. He received a Master’s in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests focus on sociological issues within Syrian society.

Assistant Researcher and editorial secretary for Tabayyun Journal at the ACRPS. He holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy from the University of Algiers 02. His research interests focus on the issues of philosophy of religion and the sacred, Hermeneutics, phenomenology, existential psychotherapy, and contemporary existential philosophy.

Assistant researcher at the ACRPS and secretary of the journal Siyasaat Arabia. He holds a master's degree in political science and international relations from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers and the book The Virtual Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Orientations, and Mechanisms to Create Public Opinion. His research interests relate to international and regional affairs in general and the Syrian situation in particular.

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.

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.

Assistant Researcher at the ACRPS. Secretary of the Editor of the Siyasaat Arabiya Journal. Holds a master's degree in Public Administration from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and his research interests are focused on public policy.

Researcher and editorial secretary for Omran journal at the ACRPS. He received a Master’s in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests focus on sociological issues within Syrian society.

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.

Hani Awad is an assistant researcher and editor-in-chief of 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. His research interests focus on protest movements, historical sociology, spatial sociology, rural politics, and urban sociology.

Director of Finance at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Holds a bachelor's degree in economics and financial sciences from the University of Damascus. He worked in several private companies in Syria and Qatar and served as head of accounts in one of the largest economic groups in the Gulf and the Middle East. He has a certificate in International Financial Reporting Standards, International Standards for Government Accounting from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) as of 2016. He is a member of the GCC Accounting and Auditing Cooperation.

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.

Senior accountant at the ACRPS. He has worked as an accountant in Cairo and Doha with various companies and bodies. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Department of Accounting at the University of Cairo.

Coordinator of the Editing department at the ACRPS. He obtained a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies in 1993, 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 Geopolotics, 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.

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.

Researcher at the Arab Center. She obtained a doctorate in political science from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. Her research interests focus on comparative politics and international relations, specifically Palestine, and the relationship of authoritarianism in the Arab world to American intervention.

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.

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.

Translator/Editor in the Arabic – English translation unit at ACRPS. He holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an Arabic language teacher at McDaniel College in Maryland and researcher on the Startalk programme for teaching Arabic at the University of Maryland.