Profiles

ROXANA APALAGHIE - PhD Candidate Political Science, MA in Defence and Security Studies, Postgraduate Studies in International Relations and National Security, BA in Foreign Languages - english/arabic. Interested in Middle East and North Africa security architecture, and feminist perception of securi…

ALINA CROITORU has BA in Political Science, and MA in International Relations. She is Interested in Iran domestic and foreign policy, Greater Middle East geopolitics, international migration from MENA to EU and diasporas.

Flavius Caba-Maria is Director of the Economic Department. His background is in politics, regional security and economic development with a particular focus on AfPak. He holds a B.A. in Organizational Management, B.A. in Law and a M.A. in Political Science.

Joseph Mayton is founder and editor of Bikyamasr.com, an independent English language news organization based in Cairo, Egypt. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Middle East Magazine, Common Ground News Service and many other international publications.

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May Darwich is currently a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University.  She holds a masters degree in International Politics and a BA in Political Science.  Her areas of expertise include international relations in the Middle East, the Arab-Isr…

Heather Murdock has reported for The Washington Times, Time.com, CBS Evening News, Voice of America, The New Statesman, GlobalPost, Time Magazine, CBS Radio, JO Magazine (Jordan), Yemen Today Magazine, the Yemen Times and NOW Lebanon.  Currently based in Egypt and Lebanon, she has also worked i…

Gruia Badescu holds a BA in Geography and International Studies from Middlebury College and a MSc in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics. Gruia has researched in Beirut and Sarajevo with a Young Explorer Grant from the National Geographic Society, comparing the uses of…

Matilda Allen studied politics and sociology at the University of Manchester, where she wrote an undergraduate thesis entitled “Democracy and trust in progress.” After graduating, she worked at University College London on the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010 …

Yousef Eldin is a journalist based between Dublin and London.  He specializes in writing cultural features and has previously contributed to the Irish Times from Jerusalem.