Dr. Khalil al-Anani is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. He is a leading academic expert on Islamist movements, Egyptian politics, and democratization in the Middle East. He has also served as a scholar of Middle East politics at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK, as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and as a senior scholar at Al-Ahram Foundation in Cairo.