Dalia Ziada is ISGAP’s Director in Washington, D.C., and an award-winning author and scholar whose research focuses on Middle East geopolitics, Islamism, and antisemitism.
Before joining ISGAP, Ziada held senior positions at regional and international think tanks and civil society organizations in her native Egypt, Israel, and the United States. In these roles, she led research and policy initiatives, advised policymakers, and authored books, papers, and articles examining geopolitical conflicts, security challenges, and shifting power relations across the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean.
Ziada has received several awards recognizing the impact of her writing and advocacy. She gained international recognition for her role during the Arab Spring uprisings of 2010–2011 and, more recently, for her public opposition to Hamas and support for Israel following the October 7, 2023 attacks. For two decades, she has been actively engaged in Muslim-Jewish and Arab-Israeli dialogue and has been a prominent critic of political Islamism and radical Islamist movements in Egypt, the broader Middle East, and the United States.
Ziada studied international relations at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, with a concentration in international security studies. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College.
She is the author of the bestselling book “The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf: Egypt—Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy” (2019), as well as several other books published in English and Arabic since 2006.