Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Project on Middle East Democracy and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Previously, he served as a program specialist on public diplomacy at the State Department and a legislative fel¬low for Senator Dianne Feinstein. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Jerusalem Post, New Republic, American Prospect, and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. He also writes for the National Security Network’s blog, Democracy Arsenal, and has appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR, Voice of America, and the BBC. He is a Marshall scholar and doctoral candidate at Oxford University, writing his dissertation on Islamist political behavior in Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco. He received his B.S. and M.A. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.