Faria Nasruddin is a Nonresident Fellow at the Stimson Center’s Middle East Program. She focuses on regional security, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding in the Middle East, as well as women’s leadership and gender norm change. She is also an independent consultant working with AMENA Strategies, Georgetown Global Strategies, and the Climate and Water Initiative.

Faria previously served as a program associate at the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program, where she led the Middle East Women’s Initiative and served as the managing editor of the flagship publication, Enheduanna: The Voices of Women from the Middle East. She has also held other roles at the Middle East Institute, the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council, the Journal for Cold War Studies, and the Overseas Development Institute. Her work has been featured in the Georgetown Journal for International Affairs, More to Her Story, as well as various think tank publications.

Faria holds an A.M. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and an A.B. in history from Bowdoin College. She is fluent in Portuguese and proficient in Arabic. Faria was chosen to be part of the 2025 NextGen Cohort for Foreign Policy for America and is a member of a number of professional associations, including the Women’s Foreign Policy Group and the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Group.