Emile El-Hokayem
Non-Resident Research Fellow
Emile El-Hokayem is a non-resident Research Fellow with the Henry L. Stimson Center’s Southwest Asia/Gulf program and the Politics Editor of the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National. From 2004 to 2008, Emile served as a resident fellow at the Stimson Center.
His research interests include the security, politics and economics of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. He is also an analyst of Lebanese and Syrian politics and security.
Emile earned his Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, where he focused on international security, US foreign policy and the Middle East. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, the school’s academic publication. He has worked as an independent consultant on Middle East issues, including human rights, refugee affairs and political reform. His Washington experience includes research work on Middle East issues at the International Crisis Group and the Middle East Institute. He holds degrees in economics and finance from the University of Paris-Dauphine. He is fluent in French and Arabic.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Transformation or Transition: The Pace and Nature of Change in the Arab Gulf," Chapter for Stimson Book, 2008
"Syria: Options and Implications for Lebanon and the Region," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, 2007
"Le Golfe fragilise par le nucleaire iranien," Le Monde, 2007
"Syria and Hizballah: Outgrowing the Proxy Relationship," The Washington Quarterly, 2007
"Hizbollah's Enduring Myth," Arab Reform Bulletin, 2006
"Arab Gulf States: the Iran Complex," OpenDemocracy, 2006
"The Arab Gulf States in the Shadow of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge," Stimson Working Paper, 2006
"Security Sector Reform in the Gulf," Stimson Report, 2006
"Saudi Security: King Abdallah's Greatest Challenge," The Daily Star, 2005
"Middle East-Asia Relations: Imagining Alternative Futures," Stimson Report, 2004
