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Michele Dunne
Nonresident Scholar, Middle East Program

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Michele Dunne is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Michele Dunne was a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East. She was the founding director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council from 2011 to 2013 and was a senior associate and editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 2006 to 2011. 

Dunne was a Middle East specialist at the U.S. Department of State from 1986 to 2003, where she served in assignments that included the National Security Council, the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, the U.S. embassy in Cairo, the U.S. consulate general in Jerusalem, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. She also served as a visiting professor of Arabic language and Arab studies at Georgetown from 2003 to 2006.  


education
Ph.D., M.A., B.S., Georgetown University
languages
Arabic, English

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Navigating a Turbulent Future? What to Expect in 2022
December 8, 2021

The Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center will be holding its fifth annual conference on Wednesday, December 8, and Thursday, December 9, 2021, to delve deeper into what to expect in 2022.

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Ultimate Political Authority: The Struggle for Power in 21st Century Egypt
December 3, 2021

Please join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East program for a public discussion marking the launch of two new books, "Bread and Freedom" and "Lumbering State, Restless Society."

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In the Media
As Oil Is Waning, the Times Are Changing

While the Arab countries, particularly the wealthy Gulf states, might long have considered themselves insulated from global trends, recent events show that this is no longer true, if indeed it ever was. Mass protests, the pandemic, and climate change are all buffeting the region.

· November 30, 2021
Current History
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North Africa Faces the Pandemic
October 7, 2021

Please join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program for the launch of a newly published Sada mini-documentary series, which offers a look into the pandemic’s effect on four vulnerable North African communities.

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In the Media
The Fall

At stake in Tunisia are the hard-won political gains of the last ten years: the increases in freedom of expression and association, individual rights, and the Tunisian constitution.

· September 2, 2021
The Signal
In The Media
in the media
Is the Two-State Solution Still Viable?

A survey of experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the viability of the two-state solution.

In The Media
in the media
Some Change, but Not a Great Deal

The new and oft-repeated formulation of “equal measures of security, freedom, opportunity, and dignity” for Israelis and Palestinians is meant to signal some change in policy, but not a great deal of change.

· June 21, 2021
In The Media
in the media
Up for Debate: The Biden Administration’s Approach to Israel/Palestine, June, 21, 2021

The most important word is “equal,” which is meant to signal to progressives within Democratic Party circles — and to Israel — that the administration is aware of and concerned about the glaring inequality that Palestinians experience under occupation.

· June 21, 2021
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Islamic Institutions in Arab States: Mapping the Dynamics of Control, Co-option, and Contention

The complex relations between the state and Islamic institutions in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco shed light on evolving governance and have important implications for Western policies of countering violent extremism and conflict resolution.

· June 7, 2021
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Re-balancing U.S. Security Engagement with Arab States
May 26, 2021

Please join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East program for a public discussion marking the launch of a new edited volume, “From Hardware to Holism: Re-balancing America's Security Engagement with Arab States.”

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