BOOK REV: The Curious Case of The Three-legged Wolf: Egypt, Military, Islamism and Liberal Democracy

Dalia Ziada is the Founding Director of the Liberal Democracy Institute. It is a Cairo-based think tank dedicated to studying, promoting, and advising policymakers on advancing liberal democracy and countering violent extremism and political Islamism in Egypt and the Middle East. She is also a civil society professional and socio-political analyst. Her areas of expertise include Civil-Military relations in Egypt and the Middle East, Political Islamists and terrorism, Countering violent extremism and radicalization, international Security Studies, Internal political affairs in Egypt, Regional political and security dynamics in the Middle East, Liberal democracy, human rights, and women’s rights in the Arab world, Nonviolent action, and strategies, Civil Society in the Arab world, United States Foreign Policy in the Middle East. She studied international relations, with a focus on international security studies, at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (USA). She authored several books including, The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf: Egypt: Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy (2019).