 | Dr Maha Azzam has been an Associate Fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House since 2002, and is a specialist in Middle East politics. She was previously Head of Programme on Security and Development in Muslim States at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. Her fields of expertise are Islamist groups in the Middle East (with particular reference to Egypt), political Islam, the ideology of al-Qaeda, and democratisation in the Middle East. She has been closely involved in the MENA Programme’s ongoing Egypt project on the roles of the Muslim Brotherhood and the military in the transition process. |
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