Maysaa Shujaa Aldeen

Maysaa Shujaa Aldeen is a visiting fellow in the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Shujaa Aldeen is a Yemeni senior researcher at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies. She has written several papers, including a Carnegie-published report on the impact of political conflict on religious schools in Yemen. Other papers, on the Houthi structure, ideology, and their relationship with tribes, were published in the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, Arab Reform Initiative, Carnegie, and the Al Jazeera Studies Center.

Currently, Shujaa Aldeen is working as a co-mentor on a paper about the relationship between religious scholars and the Houthis with the Qordoba Institute in Geneva. She has written extensively on Yemeni politics and history in the media, and for think-tanks such as al-Monitor, Foreign Policy, and Al Magallah.

Shujaa Aldeen holds a master’s degree from the American University in Cairo, with her thesis exploring contemporary Zaydism and the Houthis ideology.