Fouad Gehad Marei
Fouad Gehad Marei is a Doctoral Fellow at Durham University. His research focuses on civil society, political economy and political Shi’ism in Lebanon. His other research interests include Islamic political thought, international political economy, Egypt, Iran, Central Asia, progressive Islam, Sufism, Shi'ism and freedom of expression.
Fouad holds an M.A in International Relations from Durham University, UK. He has since worked with NGOs and advocacy groups in Egypt, Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East on issues ranging from freedom of expression to human rights and the rule of law. Fouad is a research affiliate at the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (Notre Dame University in Louaizé, Lebanon) and a Visiting Research Associate at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES – American University in Beirut), a member of the British Institute for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL).
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