Dana Stroul is Director of Research and Shelly and Michael Kassen Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, positions she assumed in February, 2024. She rejoined the Institute ...

Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is the former Weston Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and is Director of the Wasatia Academic Institute in Jerusalem. A Jerusalem-born scholar and ...

Nickolay Mladenov was the Segal Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute until his appointment as High Representative for Gaza in January 2026. An accomplished Bulgarian politician ...

Michael Singh is the Managing Director and Steven D. Levy Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute, a post he assumed in 2010, and a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National ...

Ghaith al-Omari, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship, is the former executive ...

Ehud Yaari is an Israel-based Lafer international fellow of The Washington Institute. A Middle East commentator for Israel's Channel Twelve television and former associate editor of Jerusalem Report, ...

The Washington Institute seeks to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them. The Institute is a 501(c)3 ...

Hamdi Malik is an Associate Fellow at The Washington Institute and a co-founder of the Militia Spotlight platform, which provides in-depth analysis of Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. His work ...

Dr. Aaron Y. Zelin is the Gloria and Ken Levy Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he also directs the Islamic State Worldwide Activity Map project. Zelin is also a Visiting ...

Anna Borshchevskaya is the Harold Grinspoon Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East, focusing on ...

Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant. The longtime ...

David Pollock was the Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute focusing on the political dynamics of Middle Eastern countries from 2007 until his death in 2024. At the Institute, he was the ...