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Attiya Ahmad

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Attiya Ahmad is Georgetown University’s 2009-10 Center for International and Regional Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow. She recently completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Dr. Ahmad’s work brings together scholarship on Islamic studies, globalization, diaspora and migration studies, economic anthropology, and political economy.

 

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Iran's Growing Protests
  • Podcast
  • Iran's Growing Protests

    Today’s episode challenges preconceived notions about Iranian society, the hijab, and the regime clinging to power in Tehran. Joining us today for an enlightening conversation are two Iran experts, Marjan Keypour Greenblatt and Alex Vatanka. Marjan is the founder and director of the Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM), a non-resident scholar with MEI’s Iran Program, and a member of the Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities. Alex is the director of MEI’s Iran Program and a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Europe Initiative.

    September 23, 2022

    OPEC+: Neither with the West, nor with the East
    Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images
  • Analysis
  • OPEC+: Neither with the West, nor with the East

    Under current, highly unpredictable market conditions, it is unreasonable for OPEC to make sharp movements to saturate the oil market or withdraw a significant number of barrels from it to meet divergent Western interests of lowering prices and punishing Russia.

    America and Iran’s Tough Tango with the Gulf States
  • Commentary
  • America and Iran’s Tough Tango with the Gulf States

    Since the Biden Administration came to office, Washington has been full of reports that the United States and its Gulf allies are drifting apart. The core argument was that in order to deliver for the Democratic Party’s grassroots base, U.S. President Joe Biden would seek to pursue a foreign policy that prioritized American values over American interests. In such a policy turn, Gulf States would be adversely impacted as the U.S.-Gulf relations are much more about common interests than common values—such as political democracy, the issue of human or labor rights, etc.

    Catastrophic floods: Understanding the gravity of Pakistan’s health and food crises
    Photo by HUSNAIN ALI/AFP via Getty Images
  • Analysis
  • Catastrophic floods: Understanding the gravity of Pakistan’s health and food crises

    Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif recently warned that his country needs “an infinite amount of funding” to support flood relief efforts. Torrential rains and heavy flooding have killed more than 1,550 people and displaced millions. Compounding the challenge are Pakistan’s intensifying food and health crises, as flood-borne diseases surge and nearly two-thirds of the country’s food basket has been destroyed.

    September 22, 2022

    Why Khamenei is unlikely to pick his son to succeed him as Iran’s supreme leader
    Photo by Saeid Zareian/picture alliance via Getty Images
  • Analysis
  • Why Khamenei is unlikely to pick his son to succeed him as Iran’s supreme leader

    Amid the ongoing circus over efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, two rumors have started to gain traction inside and outside Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is on his deathbed and preparations are being made for his son, Mojtaba, to succeed him.

    September 21, 2022

    Are the Houthis Willing to Compromise in Yemen?
  • Commentary
  • Are the Houthis Willing to Compromise in Yemen?

    The Houthis have a poor track record in negotiations. But giving up on negotiating with them isn’t an option.

    September 21, 2022

    The I2U2 needs an ambitious tech agenda
    Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images
  • Analysis
  • The I2U2 needs an ambitious tech agenda

    Technology represents one potentially fruitful area where the I2U2 member states — Israel, India, the U.S. and the UAE — could cooperate together, expand their format to include more countries, deliver tangible results, and avoid agitating other global and regional powers.

    CENTCOM’s Got a New Mission. It Needs More Support.
  • Commentary
  • CENTCOM’s Got a New Mission. It Needs More Support.

    U.S. Central Command is quietly making a historic transition from a wartime command center to something like a hub for cajoling the region’s partners large and small toward stouter collective defense. But since CENTCOM’s new commander has vastly fewer resources for his tough new mission, defense and national security leaders in Washington need to back him up with a larger measure of policy coherence.

    September 16, 2022

    Iraq’s crisis of elite, consensus-based politics turns deadly: The Sadrists
    Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images
  • Analysis
  • Iraq’s crisis of elite, consensus-based politics turns deadly: The Sadrists

    More than 11 months after Iraq’s October 2021 parliamentary elections, the government has yet to be formed. The government formation power struggle pits the Sadrist Movement against the Coordination Framework. The ongoing Arba’een religious pilgrimage forces political downtime, but the deadlock continues and many fear future violence unless both camps can agree on mutually acceptable concessions.

    September 16, 2022