Mohanad Hage Ali

Mohanad Hage Ali is the director of communications and a fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center. He was a managing editor of NOW Arabic website, and a political editor/reporter at al-Hayat newspaper in Beirut and London, where his work focused mostly on Iraq and militant Islam. Mohanad had taught politics and journalism at the Lebanese American University and has an Msc. and a PhD in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  His latest publications include “Power Points Defining the Syria-Hezbollah Relationship” (March 2019, Carnegie Middle East Center); and “Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam: Hizbullah’s Institutional Identity” (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).   

Mohanad is a Research Lead for XCEPT at the Carnegie Middle East Center. He leads research by the X-Border Local Research Network on transnational Islamist groups.