Mona Yacoubian

Mona Yacoubian is senior advisor for Stimson’s Middle East programme. Her work focuses on the Arab uprisings, with a particular concentration on Syria, while she has also worked extensively on Lebanon. She previously served as a senior programme officer on the Middle East at the U.S. Institute of Peace. In the 1990s she served as the North Africa analyst at the U.S. State Department. She has an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a BA from Duke University.