Mamoun Fandy

From his IISS profile:

Mamoun Fandy is Senior Fellow for Gulf Security Responsibilities: Dr Fandy is working in collaboration with the Director of Studies and the IISS Director-General and Chief Executive to develop a research programme and conference activities focusing on the Gulf Region and the Middle East. He also contributes to a range of IISS publications on related topics.
Background: Dr Fandy previously served as Senior Fellow of Arab and Middle East Politics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in the US, and as Editor of the bi-monthly Qadaya 'Alamiyya (Global Issues). Prior to that he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC, Professor of Middle East Politics at the Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) at the National Defense University, and Professor of Arab Politics at Georgetown University. His publications have included Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent; Kuwait as a New Concept of International Politics; and (Un) Civil war of Words: The Politics of Arab Media (Praeger Security International, 2007). Dr Fandy's popular articles have appeared the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and more regularly in the Christian Science Monitor. He is a columnist for the Pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat. He appears on various TV channels such as CNN, FoxNews, BBC and PBS , al-Arabiya and many other Arabic TV channels.