Marwa Maziad

Dr. Marwa Maziad is a Visiting Lecturer of Israel Studies at University of Maryland, a Non-resident Scholar with the Middle East Institute’s Defense and Security Program and Senior Faculty Fellow at American University’s Center for Israel Studies in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Maziad specializes in comparative civil-military relations, with a focus on the United States, Egypt, Israel, Turkey and the Gulf States.  Dr. Maziad held academic faculty positions at Qatar University and Northwestern University in Qatar and published heavily on Middle East Security affairs.  She is the co-editor of The Arab Gulf States and the West: Perceptions and Realities — Opportunities and Perils.  Dr. Maziad also contributed to the Pentagon’s “Global Futures Report: Alternative Futures of Geopolitical Competition in a post-COVID19 World,” that came out of the US Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) and its Strategic Foresight and Futures Branch. Her chapter covered “The Future of Geopolitical Competition in the Middle East.”  Dr. Maziad has been a regular sought-after political commentator for international media outlets including NPR, BBC Arabic, i24News, France24, and CNN International. She is fluent in Arabic, French, Turkish, and Hebrew.