Jul 26, 2022
Dr. Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
and an assistant research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller
Seminary. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, where he
writes a monthly essay on culture and politics. Hamid is also the
co-founder of Wisdom of Crowds, a newsletter, podcast, and debate
platform. In 2019, he was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers
by Prospect magazine.
Hamid is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle
Over Islam is Reshaping the World, which was shortlisted for the
2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs, and
co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. His first book Temptations
of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014. His forthcoming book
The Problem of Democracy will be published by Oxford University
Press this October.
Hamid received his B.S. and M.A. from Georgetown University’s
School of Foreign
Service and his Ph.D. in political science from Oxford
University.
Book Discussed: The Two Faces of Liberalism by John Gray
Articles:
On Putin, Rationality and Believing in Heaven
Liberalism & The Universality Trap
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