Professor Khalil al-Anani is a Senior Fellow at the ACMCU at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Prof. Al-Anani has taught at several esteemed universities including Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and George Mason University.
Prof. al-Anani’s teaching and research focuses on Political Science and International Relations with a particular interest in authoritarianism and democratization, religion and politics, state violence, social movements, Middle East politics, and migration and exile politics. He is a leading academic expert on Islamism particularly the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafism where he spent the last two decades researching them.
Prof. al-Anani has published several books (in English and Arabic) including Islamism and Revolutions Across the Middle East (Bloomsbury & I.B.Tauris, 2022), After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Inside the Muslim Brotherhood: Religion, Identity, and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016), Elections and Democratization in the Middle East (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014), and The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Gerontocracy Fighting against Time? (in Arabic) (Cairo: Shorouk Press, 2007). He also published several peer-reviewed articles and book reviews at various academic journals such as Democratization, Politics and Religion, The Middle East Journal, Middle East Law & Governance, Sociology of Islam, Perspectives on Politics, and Digest of Middle East Studies.
Prof. al-Anani holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Durham University (UK).
Personal website is: https://www.khalilalanani.com/
Selected Publications:
- Islamism and Revolutions Across the Middle East: Transformations of Ideology and Strategy After the Arab Spring (I.B.Tauris & Bloomsbury, 2022)
- After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) (co-edited)
- Inside the Muslim Brotherhood: Religion, Identity, and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- “Islam and Islamism” (co-author) in The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings, Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom (eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2022).
- “Rethinking Religion and Democratic Transition: Lessons from the Arab World,” in After the Arab Revolutions: Decentering Democratic Transition Theory, (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
- “Muslim Brotherhood: Ideology, Organization, and Activism.”, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, edited by David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Doug McAdam, and Bert Klandermans (2022)
- “Devout Neoliberalism?! Explaining Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’s Socio-economic Perspective and Policies,” Politics and Religion, Vol. 13, Issue 4, December 2020, pp. 748-767.
- “The Inclusion-Moderation Thesis: Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, August 2019.
- “Rethinking the Repression-Dissent Nexus: Assessing Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’s Response to Repression since the Coup of 2013.” Democratization, 2019, VOL. 26, NO. 8, 1329–1341.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- ACMCU