Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy and member of the Egyptian American Rule of Law Association; co-author of The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East; former advisor to the Palestinian team negotiating with Israelis (2004-2009)
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