The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) has appointed Dalia Ziada as its new Washington D.C. Coordinator and Research Fellow, bringing two decades of international experience in governance, security, and Middle Eastern geopolitics to the organization.
Ziada shared the news on LinkedIn, noting that in her new role she will draw on her professional and academic expertise to support ISGAP’s mission of informing legislators, policymakers, and the public with credible, research-based analysis. Her focus will include translating ISGAP’s scholarship into actionable ideas that strengthen liberal democratic values and combat all forms of ideological radicalism.
An award-winning writer and political analyst, Ziada has built a career across Egypt, Israel, and the United States. She studied international relations at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she specialised in international security studies.
Over the past twenty years, Ziada has held senior roles at several leading think tanks and civil society organisations. She co-founded and chaired the Liberal Democracy Institute (LDI), served as Executive Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (IKC), and was the Middle East and North Africa Regional Director for the American Islamic Congress (AIC). She also directed research at the Center for Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Studies (MEEM) and was a Senior Research and Diplomacy Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). She also served as a board member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW).
Her long-standing involvement in fostering dialogue and countering extremism has made her a recognised advocate for liberal democracy and interfaith understanding. Ziada has been active in Muslim-Jewish and Arab-Israeli dialogue initiatives for more than 16 years and has been internationally acknowledged for her role during the Arab Spring and her outspoken opposition to Islamist extremism.
Since May 2024, she has toured American university campuses in partnership with Hillel International, delivering lectures on the shifting geopolitics of the Middle East in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. During the 2024–2025 academic year, she visited 59 campuses across the United States.
Ziada is also an accomplished author. Her 2019 book, “The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf – Egypt: Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy,” was an international success. Her forthcoming work, “The Coalition of Odds,” examines the new geopolitical landscape emerging in the Middle East amid shifting global power dynamics.
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