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Disrupting conventional thinking on the Middle East and North Africa
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Conducting ethnographic research
on the ground
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Mentoring students and professionals
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Delivering insight and analysis
for global decision-makers

Welcome to my website. I am an expert on the (geo)politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, who advises public and private sector organizations on regional politics, political risk, and political economy. I am also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Middle East Institute Switzerland (MEIS), a think tank advisory that conducts research and provides actionable analysis on the MENA region.

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"The best book available on the most influential Islamist movement in the world."

-- Eugene Rogan,
University of Oxford

"The Fourth Ordeal
is history at its best."

-- Hazem Kandil,
Cambridge University

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Explore my professional and research activities, some of my policy and journalistic writing, as well as my free-of-charge mentoring for students with a passion in the Middle East and North Africa.