Emile hokayem biography
Emile Hokayem is Director of Regional Security and Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)....
Emile Hokayem
Emile Hokayem is the Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies based out of its Middle East office in Manama, Bahrain.
Emile Hokayem is the Director of Regional Security and Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
He is the author of Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant, published by the IISS and Routledge in June 2013, and the co-editor of Middle Eastern Security, the US Pivot and the Rise of ISIS, published by the IISS and Routledge in January 2015.
He regularly provides analysis on Middle East affairs to governments, corporations and the media. His commentary has featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, AlHayat, Asharq Al-Awsat, Foreign Policy, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the BBC, NPR and other outlets.
Expertise :
- Politics and security of the Levant (Syria-Lebanon-Hezbollah)
- Politics and security of the Gulf states
- Regional security in the Gulf and the Middle East
- US policy in the Middle East
- Role of external actors in the Middle Eas