Hamzah Rifaat
Contributor
Hamzah Rifaat is the president of Initiate Futures, a policy think tank delivering practical solutions to challenges spanning governance, education, development, and global conflict resolution. He was a South Asian Voices visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington and is currently a columnist for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and expert for Al Arabiya English and Asharq News Arabic. He is also an author for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Sada journal in Washington and the Trends Group in Abu Dhabi.
Rifaat also worked as a communications specialist for the Women’s International Perspective at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California and as a news anchor for ThinkTech Hawaii, Indus News, and PTV World.
Analysis
Digital Risks in the Strait of Hormuz Present New Challenges
Iran’s threats involving undersea internet cables and digital infrastructure in the Strait of Hormuz have transformed the crisis from an energy chokepoint into a hybrid risk for Gulf Arab economies.
