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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Dr Maha Azzam

Dr Maha Azzam

Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme

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Expertise

  • Political Islam
  • Islam and Globalisation
  • Middle East Politics
  • Islamist Groups in the Middle East with particular reference to Egypt
  • Ideology of the al-Qaeda

Projects

  • Currently writing a book on Political Islam for Blackwell/Chatham House.

Recent Publications

  • 'The Centrality of Ideology in Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the Middle East', in James Forest (ed.) Counter Terrorism in the 21st Century (Praeger Security International 2007)
  • 'Some Local and Global Dimensions in the Radicalisation of Muslim Communities in Europe', The Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2007
  • 'Al-Qaeda-Five years on', Chatham House Briefing Paper, London, September 2006
  • 'Islamism Revisited', International Affairs, vol 82, no.6, November 2006
  • 'Political Islam and the Ideology of Violence', in Professor James Forest (ed.) The Making of a Terrorist (Praeger Press 2006)
  • 'Militant Islamism in Egypt and the new Jihad', in Jean-Luc (ed.) Jihadism (University Press France 2005)

Experience

2002-Present Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme, Chatham House
1995-1999 Head of Programme on Security and Development in Muslim States, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Whitehall London SW1A 2ET
1993-1995 Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Whitehall London SW1A 2ET
1990-1991 Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Broadcast Experience

Extensive

Languages

Bi-lingual English/Arabic