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Fatima Abo Alasrar

Yemen and Horn of Africa Political Dynamics and Security
Fatima Abo Alasrar is a Yemen-focused policy and security analyst and MENA Director at Cure Violence. She has been a Mason Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and an international policy fellow at the Open Society Foundation. From 2006 to 2012, she served as an advisor at the Embassy of Yemen in Washington, DC, and previously worked as program officer for the Department for International Development in Yemen. She writes The Ideology Machine on Substack: 
https://ideologymachine.substack.com
Abo Alasrar holds an MA in Public Administration from Harvard University, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Architectural Engineering from Sanaa University in Yemen.