Forum Agenda and Participant Biographies - Brookings Institution

Ahmadu Bello University, earned a Masters in Political
Science from the University of Wisconsin, and received
an Advanced Diploma in Journalism from the Moscow
Institute of Journalism and International Relations. She
has written twenty-three chapters in published books
on topics that include women’s rights, media, gender,
Islam, politics, and maternal and child health.
huma yusuf
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Huma Yusuf is the 2010-2011
Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for
Scholars. She is a reporter and columnist
for Dawn, Pakistan’s leading
English-language daily, and is
currently researching a book on Pakistan’s independent
media and its impact on politics and society.
Yusuf has written about terrorism, human rights, development,
and media trends for Dawn, the Christian
Science Monitor, and the Indian Express. She is a recipient
of the European Commission’s 2006 Lorenzo
Natali Prize for Human Rights Journalism and the
UNESCO/Pakistan Press Foundation 2005 Gender
in Journalism Award. Yusuf holds a master’s degree
from MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program and
a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
Fareed Zakaria
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Fareed Zakaria has been host of
CNN’s flagship international affairs
program, Fareed Zakaria GPS,
since 2008. He is also Editor-at-
Large of TIME, a Washington Post
columnist, and a New York Times
bestselling author. Within its first year, GPS garnered
an Emmy nomination for an interview with Premier
Wen Jaibao. Zakaria was introduced as TIME Editorat-Large
in October 2010 after spending ten years
overseeing all of Newsweek’s editions abroad. Before
joining Newsweek in October 2000, he spent eight
years as managing editor of Foreign Affairs. He was
described in 1999 by Esquire Magazine as “the most
influential foreign policy adviser of his generation,”
and in 2010, Foreign Policy named him one of the top
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100 global thinkers. Zakaria is the author of The Post-
American World and The Future of Freedom, both New
York Times bestsellers. Zakaria has a B.A. from Yale
College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and
has received honorary degrees from numerous universities
including Brown, the University of Miami, and
Oberlin College.
Shireen Zaman
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Shireen Zaman is the Executive
Director at the Institute for Social
Policy and Understanding (ISPU),
working to expand the organization’s
impact and visibility in the
policy community and on the development
of new partnerships. Prior to ISPU, Zaman
was the Director for the Middle East and North Africa
at Vital Voices Global Partnership, a leading women’s
leadership organization. She was previously at the Office
of Iraq Political Affairs at the U.S. Department
of State, where she worked on political and civil society
development. Zaman completed her M.A. at the
School of International Service at American University,
where she focused on public diplomacy and U.S.
relations with the Muslim world.
James Zogby
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James Zogby is the Founder and
President of the Arab American
Institute, a Washington, DCbased
organization which serves
as the political and policy research
arm of the Arab American community.
He currently serves as a Senior Advisor for
the polling firm Zogby International, on the Executive
Committee of the Democratic National Committee,
as Co-Chair of the Resolution’s Committee, and
as Secretary of the Ethnic Council. Dr. Zogby writes
a weekly column, “Washington Watch,” and since
2001, has hosted the award-winning “Viewpoint with
James Zogby” on Abu Dhabi Television, LinkTV,
Dish Network, and DirecTV. He is the author of Arab
Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why It Matters.