Burning ambition: Egypt’s return to regional leadership and how Europe should respond
The Egyptian regime has become somewhat more open to discussing matters such as human rights than Western capitals sometimes assume
Experts & Staff
Hafsa Halawa
ECFR Alumni · Visiting Fellow
Areas of expertise
Egypt, Iraq, civic space, gender equality, peace & reconciliation and water diplomacy
Languages
English, Arabic, French
Biography
Hafsa Halawa was a visiting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She is an independent consultant working on political, social and economic affairs, and development goals across the Middle East and North Africa and Horn of Africa regions. A former corporate lawyer, Halawa has held positions in government, the UN, INGOs/NGOs, corporate multinationals, private firms, and think tanks, now consulting for a similar set of clients. She is concurrently a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, and is based in London, United Kingdom.
In the media
This is an uncomfortable question for which the government has no answers
ECFR visiting fellow Hafsa Halawa comments on the Egyptian government’s spending spree, and how they plan to pay for it