Tamer Badawi

Associate Fellow

Tamer Badawi is an analyst and consultant currently focused on violent conflict, security, and governance in Iraq and the wider region. He has worked in journalism, think-tanks, and with INGOs and he has experience publishing in Arabic and English for ten years. His analyses appeared with Sada Journal, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre, The Atlantic Council, Janes, Al Monitor, ISPI, Aljazeera Centre for Studies, among other. His media comments appeared with Aljazeera English, Associated Press, The National, and Deutsche Welle, among other outlets.

Tamer is currently a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Kent’s School of Politics and International Relations where he is writing a thesis about the behaviour of tribal networks and modes of mobilisation during wartime.

 

Focus & topics:

Violent conflict, paramilitary groups, ethnic politics, and geopolitical trends affecting Iraq and the wider region.

 

badawi [at] carpo-bonn.org

 

Selected publications:

  • (2022): Iraq Country Profile in ‘Armed Conflict Survey 2022’ (ed.), The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
  • & Osama al-Sayyad (July 2021): ‘Mismatched Expectations: Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood After the Arab Uprisings’ in A Restless Revival: Political Islam After the 2011 Uprisings, Carnegie Middle East Centre.
  • (2020): ‘The Impacts of Climate Change and Sanctions on Iran’s Water-Food Security Nexus’ in Revisiting Natural Resources in the Middle East and North Africa, MEDirections ebook, European University Institute.
  • (June 2020): The popular mobilisation units as a relief agency: can the Coronavirus pandemic accelerate institutional transformation?, Policy Briefs, 2020/24, Middle East Directions (MED).
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