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Ibrahim Fraihat (aka Ibrahim Sharqieh)

Ibrahim Fraihat (aka Ibrahim Sharqieh)
Deputy Director, Brookings Doha Center
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Ph.D. Conflict Analysis and Resolution , George Mason University
B.A. and M.A., Birzeit University, Palestine

Biography

Ibrahim Fraihat, (also known as Ibrahim Sharqieh) is a Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Deputy Director of the Brookings Doha Center, and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar. Fraihat is the author of the upcoming book Unfinished Revolutions: Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia After the Arab Spring (Yale University Press 2016). Fraihat previously served as senior project director at The Academy for Educational Development (AED), where he managed international development projects in several Arab countries including Yemen and Qatar. He also served as an academic advisor to the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, D.C. and taught International Conflict Resolution at The George Washington, George Mason, and Catholic universities. His publications appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, The National Interest, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Widely quoted on Middle East politics in Reuters and Associated Press, he is a frequent commentator on news channels, including NPR, CNN, Aljazeera (English & Arabic), and BBC. Fraihat received his Ph.D. from George Mason University in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in 2006.

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Distinguished Alumni Award for the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Awarded by the George Mason University Alumni Association on April 9th, 2014. Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar published an article about Fraihat entitled, GU-...
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Introduces field of conflict analysis and resolution. Examines definitions of conflict and diverse views of its...
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February 01, 2017
Chapter four in the Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa Working Group Summary Report is written by S-CAR PhD Ibrahim Fraihat. The protests that swept across parts of the Middle East beginning in December 2010 have had a dramatic impact on...
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April 20, 2016
Post-revolution states often find that once a transition process begins, challenges can arise, such as political polarization and the threat of civil war. A respected commentator on Middle Eastern politics, Ibrahim Fraihat compares three countries grappling with...
Category: Book
January 02, 2016
Libya faces a bleak humanitarian crisis, the result of the country's descent into civil war in the summer of 2014 following the 2011 revolution.Hundreds of thousands of Libyan citizens are uprooted within the country and many more are sheltering in neighboring...
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August 13, 2015
A prominent theory regarding the impact of the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 on the Arab region has been that it will only increase Iranian involvement in domestic Arab affairs, given that the deal would give Iran access to substantial financial...
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February 25, 2014
In Ayn al-Hilwe, Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, you frequently hear a new term: “Death Convoys” (Qawafel al-Mawt). It refers to the extremely dangerous voyages across the Mediterranean that Palestinian refugees are resorting to after...
Category: Journal Article
December 2013
More than two years since the death of Muammar al-Qaddafi, the euphoria of revolution has worn off as Libya faces a multitude of difficulties. In addition to more immediate security issues, Libya struggles with questions about the past actions of the Qaddafi...
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February 11, 2013
As Yemenis sit down to their long-delayed national dialogue, they face an array of challenges that threaten to pull the country apart – from an unfinished revolution to regional demands for independence. Can Yemen grapple with its legacy of dictatorship and...
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April 12, 2006
This study attempts to contribute to the advancement of the predicting capabilities of early warning systems of violence eruption. It focuses mainly on predicting the likelihood of people, especially the weaker party, resorting to violence in situations of...
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February 26, 2011
Ibrahim Sharqieh, on Al Jazeera English, examines the thinking of the inner circle surrounding the embattled Libyan
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February 23, 2011
Hosni Mubarak’s ouster by a popular uprising represents the breakdown of the decades-old approach of repression
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February 22, 2011
The people of Libya are closer than ever to freedom from the 42-year-long rule of the world’s longest serving
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February 22, 2011
 Ibrahim Sharqieh, deputy director of Brookings Doha Center and Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy:Today
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February 21, 2011
As the revolutionary spirit sweeps beyond Tunisia and Egypt to other Arab countries in the Mideast and Gulf, many
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January 28, 2011
Though the Yemeni government has undoubtedly bolstered its efforts in the fight against Al Qaeda, its actions serve to
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January 27, 2011
After the anti-Mubarak "Day of Rage" demonstrations ignited across Egypt on January 25, U.S. Secretary of
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January 07, 2011
The Jan. 9 referendum vote in Sudan is expected to result in the South seceding from the North. This may alleviate
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December 08, 2010
ICAR graduate Ibrahim Sharqieh has been named a Fellow and Deputy Director of the Brookings Institution’s Doha
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National Reconciliation and the Search for Peace and Stability in the Post-Arab Spring Middle EastThursday, September 26th3:00 to 4:30Metropolitan Building 5th Floor, room 5183Part 1: Presentation Par
September 26, 2013
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