Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings and an adjunct research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. He is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World (St. Martin's Press), which was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize. He is also co-editor with Will McCants of Rethinking Political Islam (Oxford University Press) and co-author of Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder (Brookings Institution Press). His first book, The Temptations of Power: Islamists and Non-Libertarian Democracy in a New Middle East (Oxford University Press), was selected as a “Best Book” of 2014 by Foreign Affairs. Hamid served as research director at the Brookings Doha Center until January 2014. Hamid also works as a writer for The Atlantic and is vice president of the board of directors of the Middle East Democracy Project.