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Shadi Hamid (born 1983) is an American author and political scientist, who is currently a columnist and member of the Editorial Board at the Washington Post.[1] Previously, he was a longtime senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at the Atlantic.[2] He also holds the position of research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. This appointment is the first time a Muslim scholar has been hired in the school's history.[3] He has been called a "prominent thinker on religion and politics" in the New York Times[4] and was named as one of "The world's top 50 thinkers" in 2019 by Prospect Magazine.[5] He is known for coining the phrase "Islamic exceptionalism" to describe Islam's resistance to secularization and outsized role in public life. The phrase has come under some criticism.[6][7]
Hamid was born into a Muslim family of Egyptian ancestry in Pennsylvania.[8][9] A Marshall Scholar,[10] Hamid completed his doctoral degree in politics at Oxford University in 2010. His dissertation was titled Democrats without Democracy: the Unlikely Moderation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan.[11] Hamid received his B.S. and M.A. from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.[12]
Hamid was a Hewlett Fellow at the Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan, researching Islamist participation in the democratic process, and a research fellow at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, where he conducted research on the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Jordanian government.[12]
The Wisdom of Crowds podcast started in 2019, with Hamid as a co-host.[17][18]
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize.[19] Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East was named a Foreign Affairs "Best Book of 2014."[20]
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