Hassan Mneimneh joined GMF as Senior Transatlantic Fellow for MENA and the Islamic World in October 2011. Mr. Mneimneh was most recently a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute where he assumed a principal role in the conceptualization and implementation of a multi-year project focused on developing and strengthening civil society resistance to radicalizing tendencies in the Muslim world. Prior to joining Hudson, Mneimneh was a Visiting Fellow at AEI where he conducted a year-long exploration of the evolution of radical Islamist formations and their prospects worldwide. Between 2003 and 2008, Mneimneh was Director of the Iraq Memory Foundation, an organization dedicated to documenting Iraq’s recent past and to inviting Iraqi society to a reflection on issues of political responsibility, social order, and transitional justice. The Iraq Memory Foundation was the continuation of the Iraq Research and Documentation Project which Mneimneh co-directed at Harvard University. Mneimneh regularly contributes analysis and opinion pieces to the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat, and has written extensively, in English, Arabic, and French, on political, cultural, historical, and intellectual developments in the Muslim world.

Education
Mr. Mneimneh recieved an M.A. in history and Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University, M.A. in Arab studies from Georgetown University and a B.A. in history from the American University of Beirut.