The New Arab Staff

Mohammed A. Salih

Mohammed A. Salih

Mohammed A. Salih is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the US-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, where much of his work focused on the intersection of politics and culture. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern affairs as a journalist, analyst, and scholar

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