Fadi Elhusseini is a political counsellor and an advisory board member of the New Arab Foundation. He is a commissioning editor at e-International Relations and he is an Associate Research Fellow (ESRC) at the Institute for Middle East Studies-Canada. Elhusseini holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Sunderland in Britain. He received his Masters degree in International Commercial Laws and Policies in Italy and earned his Bachelors degree in Economics and Political Science in Egypt. He contributed a chapter to an edited book, entitled Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium and has published a number of academic articles and papers. Elhusseini is a contributing writer for a number of magazines and journals and his articles have appeared in scores of newspapers in English, French, Arabic and Italian.