Shadi Hamid
Education: Georgetown University, B.S. in international politics and M.A. in Arab studies; University of Oxford, PhD in political science
Shadi Hamid is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board at The Washington Post, where he focuses on culture, religion and foreign policy. He is also an assistant research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hamid is the author of several books, including most recently, "The Problem of Democracy." His previous book "Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World" was short-listed for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs. In 2019, Hamid was named one of the worl