Shadi Hamid

Shadi Hamid is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board at The Washington Post, where he focuses on culture, religion, and foreign policy. He is also an assistant research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Hamid is the author of several books, including “The Problem of Democracy” and “Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World,” which was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs. In 2019, Hamid was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. He is also the co-founder of “Wisdom of Crowds,” a podcast, newsletter, and debate platform. Hamid received his B.S. and M.A. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.