Initially planning to major in International Affairs, Anna McMahon fell in love with the Middle East Studies program instead and graduated with her BA in 2015. While at GW, Anna interned with …
Dr. Dania Thafer
Dr. Dania Thafer is a political scientist with a focus on the political economy and international relations of the Arab Gulf states. More specifically, her area of expertise i…
Sina Azodi, ESIA BA ’10, MA ’13
Sina Azodi is a PhD candidate in International Affairs at the University of South Florida. His research interests include international security, nu…
How did you come up with the idea of writing a textbook on Business Arabic?
My interest in business Arabic began in 2008, when GW-CIBER expanded its scope to include business languages. With a…
Rawan Alkhatib is an alumni abroad who graduated from the Middle East Studies MA program in 2017. She chose the Elliott School because of the graduate program’s focus on writing policy-t…
Kristin Diwan is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. She works at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations with an emp…
Ali Hamdan
Ali Hamdan is in his first year as a Post-Doctoral Researcher with GW’s Mount Vernon Society of Fellows, as well as an instructor in the Department of Geography. He received his PhD…
This semester’s faculty book spotlight features Professor Arie Dubnov, co-editor of Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism (Stanford University Press, …
Scott Williamson is a visiting scholar at the Elliott School’s Institute for Middle East Studies, a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford University, and a Graduate Research Fellow fu…
Babak Bahador is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs and the Director of the Media and Peacebuilding Project. Professor Bahador is also a senior lecturer …
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