Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Project on U.S.

Relations with the Islamic World in the Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution.

Hamid served as director of research at the Brookings Doha Center until January 2014.

He is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic and vice-chair of the Project on Middle East Democracy's board of directors.

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Hamid is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World published by St.

Martin's Press.

It was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2017.

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Hamid is also co-editor with Will McCants of “Rethinking Political Islam” (Oxford University Press) and co-author of “Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder” (Brookings Institution Press).

Hamid's first book “Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East” (Oxford University Press) was named a Foreign Affairs "Best Book of 2014."

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