Shadi Hamid

Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. From 2023 to 2024, he served on the Post’s Editorial Board. Hamid is the author of several books, including The Problem of Democracy and Islamic Exceptionalism, which was short-listed for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs. In 2019, he was named one of the world’s top fifty thinkers by Prospect magazine. Hamid lives in Washington, DC.