Haneen Zeglam

Haneen Zeglam is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute’s North Africa and Sahel Program and a PhD student at University College London’s (UCL) Political Science Department. Her research focuses primarily on political attitudes and behaviour across North Africa but she has worked on a range of political, social and economic trends across the Maghreb and the Sahel. Some of her most recent work has been on the state of economic integration in North Africa and the evolving forms of environmental politics and activism across the region in the wake of COP27 and COP28. 

Before joining as a Non-Resident Scholar, Haneen was a Research Assistant and Program Coordinator at the MEI. She holds degrees in Human, Social and Political Science (BA) from the University of Cambridge and Modern Middle Eastern Studies (MPhil) from the University of Oxford. Haneen also works on the North Africa Dialogue and Analysis research initiative, a project co-led by the MEI and SIPRI.