Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer for The Atlantic.
Previously, Hamid was the director of research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is currently vice-chair of POMED, a member of the World Bank’s MENA Advisory Panel, and a correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East (2014).
Featured Work
FEB 2, 2017 • Podcast
Global Ethics Forum Preview: Islamic Exceptionalism with Shadi Hamid
Next time on Global Ethics Forum, Brookings Institution’s Shadi Hamid discusses the exceptionalism of Islam and what that means for law and governance. In ...
NOV 4, 2016 • Podcast
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Many liberals hope that Islam will follow the same trajectory as Christianity and the West: a reformation and eventually secularization. But we should beware of ...
APR 15, 2014 • Podcast
Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
What if a group decides democratically that they don't want to be liberal--that they want an "illiberal democracy"? Shadi Hamid argues that repression originally compelled ...