Nour Taha is a program assistant with the Transatlantic Project at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs, where he also supports the Iraq Initiative and the Syria Program.
His research and professional interests center on governance and political reform in the Arab world, political violence and open-source intelligence-based research on Islamist groups, and the role of policy institutions in shaping political trajectories. His work focuses on Syria, Egypt, and the Gulf.
Taha has served in several political research, journalistic, and editorial positions, including at Arab Center Washington DC, the Middle East Democracy Center, and for media and human rights organizations in Washington, Beirut, and Cairo. As a political researcher and translator, he has worked on a range of projects, including translating Arabic political scholarship on domestic Egyptian conflict and conducting macroeconomic research on alternatives to International Monetary Fund lending with Lebanese government officials.
Taha holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Davis, where he was awarded a departmental citation of excellence in political science for his academic research. He is fluent in Arabic and has working knowledge of French.