Omar H. Rahman is a Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, and a Nonresident Fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Mr. Rahman is also the Editor of Afkār, the Middle East Council's publication on current Affairs in the Middle East and North Africa. Previously, Mr. Rahman was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center and a Research Associate at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Before working as a policy analyst, Mr. Rahman was a journalist and holds a Master's degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism. His writing has been published in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy magazine, The Guardian, The National Interest, and Al-Jazeera English, among many other outlets.