Resident Scholars

Tim Callen is a visiting fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute. Callen is a former assistant director in the Middle East and Central Asia department at the International Monetary Fund.

Abbas Kadhim is a senior resident scholar and the director of the Iraq Program at the Arab Gulf States Institute. Previously, he was a resident senior fellow and the director of the Atlantic Council’s Iraq Initiative. He is an Iraq expert and author of Reclaiming Iraq: The 1920 Revolutionand the Founding of the Modern State....

Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

Ali Alfoneh is a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute. Alfoneh writes the indispensable twice-weekly Iran Media Review and produces both short-form and book-length commentary on Iran.