Zienab Khalil was a foreign policy intern at The Century Foundation in 2014. Zeinab wrote her senior honor’s thesis on “the post-coup election and its prospects for democracy,” where she examined the variables of electoral timing and opposition integration in the first parliamentary election following a military coup. Her MENA research interests include civil-military relations, civil society mobilization, security sector reform, and women and militarization. She previously worked with the Cairo-based think tank, Nazra for Feminist Studies, where she researched and documented the strategic targeting of women human rights defenders by state actors. She also worked at the University of Michigan’s Arab American Studies Department. She is a Kathryn Davis Project for Peace Fellow, which she will use next fall to implement a community violence prevention and collective healing program in Antakya, Turkey for Syrian women refugees.
