Emile Hokayem is Senior Fellow for Regional Security at the IISS–Middle East office. He is an expert in Iran-Gulf strategic, political and economic relations, Levant security and the role of external actors in the Middle East. Emile came to the IISS from the Abu-Dhabi based The National newspaper, where he was Political Editor and International Affairs Columnist. He has testified in front of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Syria and Lebanon and spoken on Gulf affairs in front of various government and non-government audiences.
