The World Fellows

Deputy Head, Political Department, Al-Ahram

As the deputy head of the political section at Al-Ahram, the largest daily newspaper in Egypt and one of the most influential papers in the Middle East, Ezzat Ibrahim Youssef has contributed to the dialogue between the U.S. and Egypt. After advising a U.S. Congressman for six months on Middle East issues as a Congressional Fellow in 2004 and a fellow at The Brookings Institution’s Saban Center, Ibrahim returned to Egypt to report on his country’s first multi-candidate presidential election. While at Yale, he started writing a book on the history of Islam and Jihad in the historical American newspapers. His areas of particular interest are: the relationship between the West and Islamic societies, American-Egyptian relations, American foreign policy, U.S. politics, and media and cultural studies. 

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