The Expert is a North Africa and Middle East specialist and has produced over 400 expert witness reports for the UK courts across a range of countries including Libya, Iraq (including KRI), Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria. The Expert has also served as an expert witness in several terrorism related cases in the UK, US and Ireland; as an expert witness in a Libyan case at the Commercial Division of the UK’s High Court; and as a country guidance expert on Libya in the UK courts (2017). The Expert has also carried out numerous linguistic and nationality assessments and provides translation services (Arabic-English).
Politics, Security, Governance, Human Rights, Religious Minorities, Islamist Movements, Women’s Rights. Also provide linguistic and nationality assessments and translation (Arabic/English).
Completed more than 400 expert reports; expert witness in a number of terrorism related cases in the UK, US and Ireland; expert witness in prominent Libyan case at the Commercial Division of the High Court; country guidance expert witness for Libya (2017).
Books include:
Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda after the Arab Spring (Saqi Books, 2016)
Libya: The Rise and Fall of Gaddafi (Yale University Press, 2012)
The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition (Saqi, 2010 - updated edition 2013)
Book chapters and articles include:
‘The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda: A Failed Project?’ in Routledge Handbook of the International Relations in the Middle East. ed Shahram Akbarzadeh, Routledge, 2018
‘Libya: damned if we do and damned if we don’t’. Open Democracy. November 2017.
‘After the Fall: Views from the ground of international military intervention in post-Gadhafi Libya’. Oxford Research Group. 2017
‘The Western Agenda in Libya has failed’. Middle East Eye. 4 November 2016.
Failing Libya. Open Democracy. 18 October 2016.
Libya: From Reform to Revolution’ (p. 178-195) in North African Politics: Continuity and Change ed. Yahyia Zoubir and Gregg White. Taylor and Francis. 2015
‘Libya: The Dynamics of the 2011 Revolution’ (p.170-188) in Oil States in the New Middle East ed. Kjetil Selvik and Bjorn Olav Utvik, Routledge. 2015
Libya’s Downward Spiral’. Open Democracy. February 2015.
Iraqi Kurds Pull Together in Time of Trouble’. Al-Jazeera Center. 23 July 2014
Insiders and Outsiders in the New Libya’. Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha. 2014.