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Michael Wahid Hanna – Senior Fellow

Michael Wahid Hanna
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Michael Wahid Hanna is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He works on issues of international security, international law, and U.S. foreign policy in the broader Middle East and South Asia. He recently served as a co-director of The Century Foundation's International Task Force on Afghanistan, co-chaired by Thomas Pickering and Lakhdar Brahimi. He has published widely on U.S. foreign policy in newspapers and journals, including articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston GlobeChristian Science Monitor, the New Republic, and World Policy Journal, among other publications, and is a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy. He appears regularly on NPR, BBC, and al-Jazeera. He served as a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Baghdad in 2008. Prior to joining The Century Foundation, Hanna was a senior fellow at the International Human Rights Law Institute.  From 1999 to 2004, Hanna practiced corporate law with the New York law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.  Fluent in Arabic, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Cairo University.  He received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review. Hanna is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 
Blog of the Century Posts by Michael Wahid Hanna
Conditional Engagement from the U.S.: The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
April 8, 2013
Pluralism: The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
April 4, 2013
Decentralization and Regional Norms: The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
April 2, 2013
Transitional Justice: The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
March 28, 2013
Security-Sector Reform: The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
March 27, 2013
Education: The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
March 26, 2013
Economic Growth and Equality: the Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
March 25, 2013
The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future: Introduction
March 21, 2013
 
By Michael Wahid Hanna
US needs to recalibrate Syria strategy
May 20, 2013
Michael Hanna on MSNBC: Escalation in Syria Increases Pressure on US to Intervene
May 6, 2013
Egyptian Activists: Our Religion Is None Of Your Business
April 29, 2013
U.S. Engagement with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
April 12, 2013
The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future
March 18, 2013
Egypt Policy Challenge: The Results
March 5, 2013
Clouded U.S. Policy in Egypt
February 26, 2013
 

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