
Dr. Omar Ashour is the director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Programme in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. He is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements and From Good Cop to Bad Cop: The Challenge of Security Sector Reform in Egypt. On Twitter: @DrOmarAshour