Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Islamist ideologies; Islamist political movements in the greater Middle East; civil society counterradicalization strategies; government counterterrorism policies; Salafism; Sufism; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Middle East Program
Ed Husain says Europe needs to foster a greater sense of multiculturalism. In the United States, immigrants are accepted; in most of Europe, they are just tolerated.
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Unnoticed by the West, al-Qaeda is seizing a golden opportunity in Syria, says Ed Husain.
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Ed Husain calls on Muslim communities to respond constructively to the controversial film about the Prophet Mohammed that has led to protests in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen.
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Senior Fellow Ed Husain discusses Egypt's largest Islamist organization, and how it may be more willing to engage in diplomacy than al-Qaeda.
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Ed Husain says the United States must engage Egyptian Islamists now, rather than ignore them today or face them in government later.
See more in Egypt, Democracy and Human Rights, Counterradicalization, Political Movements
The Post asked experts what America should do about unrest in the Middle East. Below are responses from Steven Heydemann, Stephen J. Hadley, Aaron David Miller, Danielle Pletka, Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Marina Ottaway, Andrew Albertson and Ed Husain.
Ed Husain says the current popular uprisings in the Middle East are a chance for the United States to set the record straight on its stance on freedom and democracy in the region.
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The killing of Punjab's governor, Salman Taseer, was symptomatic of widespread religious intolerance and fanaticism in Pakistan, says CFR’s Ed Husain.
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CFR Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies and author of The Islamist
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Ed Husain leads a wide-ranging discussion with AbdulMawgoud Dardery of the political challenges facing Egypt and the Freedom and Justice Party's vision for the country's future
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