Research Fellow, Program on Extremism, George Washington University
Mokhtar Awad is a Research Fellow in the Program on Extremism at George Washington University's Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. Prior to joining the Program on Extremism, Awad worked as a research associate at the Center for American Progress, and before that he was a junior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Awad’s expertise are in Islamist ideology and extremist organizations, the politics of the Middle East, and U.S. foreign policy towards the region.