Mohanad Hage Ali

Mohanad Hage Ali is the Deputy Director for Research at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. An academic and political journalist, he holds a PhD and MSc in Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Specializing in nationalism and Islamic movements, Hage Ali has contributed to major Middle Eastern and Western media outlets, including Al Hayat, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. His doctoral research centered on Hezbollah’s identity construction.

In addition to his role at Carnegie, Hage Ali teaches political science at Emory University and has lectured at the Lebanese American University. He is the author of Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam: Hezbollah’s Institutional Identity (2017) and co-editor of A Restless Revival: Political Islam after the 2011 Uprisings.