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Inside the Middle East: Q&A with Khalil al-Anani

In this installment of “Inside the Middle East: Q&A,” Dr. Khalil Al-Anani, Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, discusses the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, democratization in the Middle East and the hope for political stability in Egypt. You can watch the interview, conducted by Nada Zohdy, senior editor at the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and Master in Public Policy candidate at Harvard Kennedy School, here:


Dr. Khalil al-Anani is an Adjunct Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is a leading academic expert on Islamist movements, Egyptian politics, and democratization in the Middle East. He served as a Resident Senior Scholar at The Middle East Institute, as a Scholar of Middle East politics at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University (UK), as a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. and as a Senior Scholar at Al-Ahram Foundation in Cairo.

“Inside the Middle East: Q&A” is a co-production of the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and the Middle East Initiative. The Q&A video series brings together political scientists, policymakers, academics, politicians, historians and other social scientists for discussions of critical issues in the Middle East.