General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI). Bishara is a leading Arab researcher and intellectual with numerous books and academic publications on political thought, social theory and philosophy. He was named by Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire as one of the world’s most influential thinkers. His publications in Arabic include Civil Society: A Critical Study (1996); From the Jewishness of the State to Sharon (2004); On The Arab Question: An Introduction to an Arab Democratic Manifesto (2007); To Be an Arab in Our Times (2009); On Revolution and Susceptibility to Revolution (2012); Religion and Secularism in Historical Context (in 3 vols., 2013, 2015); The Army and Political Power in the Arab Context: Theoretical Problems (2017); The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh): A General Framework and Critical Contribution to Understanding the Phenomenon (2018); What is Populism? (2019) and Democratic Transition and its Problems: Theoretical Lessons from Arab Experiences (2020). Some of these works have become key references within their respective field. His latest publication titled The Question of the State: Philosophy, Theory, and Context (2023).

Bishara’s English publications include Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice (Hurst, 2022); On Salafism: Concepts and Contexts (Stanford University Press, 2022); Sectarianism without Sects (Oxford University Press, 2021), among other writings. His trilogy on the Arab revolutions, published by I.B. Tauris, consists of Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia (2021); Egypt: Revolution, Failed Transition and Counter-Revolution (2022); and Syria 2011-2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem (2023), in which he provides a theoretical analysis in addition to a rich, comprehensive and lucid assessment of the revolutions in three Arab countries: Tunisia, Egypt and Syria.

His field of economic research is focused on evolutionary economics with an emphasis on the economics of knowledge. He is also involved in philosophical issues related to the Theories of Justice and Democracy. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg, 2003.

​Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Managing Editor of Siyasat Arabia. Hussein holds a PhD from the University of Florence, and is the author of a number of works on international affairs.

​Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, received a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His research interests focus on political theory and the philosophy of history.

Policy Analysis Unit Coordinator at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. He holds a PhD in International Relations. He was the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Kalamoon University in Damascus, Syria, until November 2012. Dr. Kabalan worked on International Political Theory at the University of Manchester, UK and at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Damascus University. 

​Chair of Democratic Transition Project at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Bassem Serhan is a Researcher in Sociology. He received a master's degree in sociology from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1967, and worked as a social researcher at the University of Western or Ontario, Canada in 1970. He has published several books, including: The American Community in Lebanon (1969), Palestinian Children (1970) "The Encyclopedia of Palestine in the Twentieth Century" (2000); "Transformations of the Palestinian Family in the Diaspora, A Comparative Sociological Study" (2005).

He previously served as Associate Professor of Political Science at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London. El-Affendi headed the Islam and Democracy Program, which he founded at that center, from 1998. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Reading in Britain.

She was a faculty member at the University of Sharjah (UAE) where she held the position of Director of the Executive MBA. She received the distinguished Faculty Member Award for Scientific Research and Teaching (2011). She also has taught as Local Tutor postgraduate students at the University of Leicester (UK) and supervised DBA students as a Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Trent University (UK). She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Montreal (Her thesis was nominated for the best HEC doctoral thesis prize).

​ Assistant Professor at the School of Public Administration and Development Economics, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He previously was Senior Policy Analyst at the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) and senior administrator of the Qatar Humanitarian Innovation Lab initiative, at Qatar University. Prior to that, Laurent worked as R&D Director at Oxford Consilium.