Brookings Doha Center

* This fellowship is made possible with generous support from the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University *

Summer 2012 Fellow: Elizabeth Harmon

Summer 2012 Fellow’s email: ezharmon@stanford.edu

Faculty Mentor: Abbas Milani, Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies

Office Description:

Established in 2007, the Brookings Doha Center is a project of the Saban Center for Middle
East Policy at the Brookings Institution and an integral part of the Brookings Institution’s Foreign
Policy Program. The BDC is also affiliated with the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the
Islamic World, with which it co-organizes the annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum generally held
in Qatar. The Center undertakes independent, policy-oriented research on the socioeconomic
and geopolitical issues facing Muslim-majority states and communities, including relations with
the United States. Open to a broad range of views, the BDC is a hub for Brookings scholarship
in the region. The center’s research and programming agenda includes key mutually enforcing
endeavors. These include: convening ongoing public policy discussions with political, business
and thought leaders from the Muslim-majority states and communities and the United States;
hosting visiting fellows; and engaging the media to broadly share Brookings analysis with the
public.

Established in 2007, the Brookings Doha Center is a project of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and an integral part of the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program. The BDC is also affiliated with the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, with which it co-organizes the annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum generally held in Qatar. The Center undertakes independent, policy-oriented research on the socioeconomic and geopolitical issues facing Muslim-majority states and communities, including relations with the United States. Open to a broad range of views, the BDC is a hub for Brookings scholarship in the region. The center’s research and programming agenda includes key mutually enforcing endeavors. These include: convening ongoing public policy discussions with political, business and thought leaders from the Muslim-majority states and communities and the United States; hosting visiting fellows; and engaging the media to broadly share Brookings analysis with the public.

Office Website: www.brookings.edu/doha

Potential Projects:

  • Provides research assistance for Brookings Doha Center resident and visiting fellows
  • Monitors and summarizes current developments in relevant research areas
  • Keeps abreast of literature on geo-political issues facing Middle Eastern states.

Desired Skills, Experience, and Coursework:

  • Middle East coursework, preferably with some background in the following areas: 1) democratization, politicalreform in Arab world, 2) Gulf politics; political science background preferred
  • Experience conducting Middle East-related research, including in Arabic
  • Collecting and analyzing information in an efficient manner

Desired Personal Qualities:

  • Works well in a team environment

Languages:

Proficiency in Arabic