H.A. Hellyer is a British scholar and analyst. He writes on the politics of the modern Middle East and North Africa, faith and politics in Europe and internationally, majority-minority relations, security issues and the

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relations. He is a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a fellow of Cambridge University's Centre for Islamic Studies. Previously, he was a senior nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Center for the Middle East, and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.rusi.org: Biography of H. A. Hellyer
Previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Foreign Policy section,brookings.edu: Biography of H. A. Hellyer
and he was also Democracy Non-Resident Fellow for the academic year 2014 to 2015 at the

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/ref> Hellyer was appointed to the British government's Taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism.communities.gov.uk: "'Preventing Extremism Together' Working Groups"
August–October 2005 Hellyer was appointed as deputy convener of the United Kingdom taskforce on tackling radicalization and extremism after the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005. He also served as the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) first economic and social research council fellow, within its Islam team and counter-terrorism team. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including ''Muslims of Europe: the 'Other' Europeans,'' and ''A Revolution Undone: Egypt's Road beyond Revolt.''

Early life and education

Hellyer was raised between the UK and the Middle East.

Career

After receiving his PhD from the University of Warwick, Hellyer was made Fellow of the

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. He was appointed as Deputy Convenor of the UK government's Taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism in the aftermath of the

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. He is a Fellow of the

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, that specializes in social innovation to tackle

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, as well as other institutions. He was a long-term consultant on Demos think tank projects ‘Community Engagement and Counter-terrorism’ and ‘Counter-radicalisation & Muslim communities’. Hellyer was a Ford Fellow of the Center for Middle East Policy at the

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, as well as a UN

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(UNAOC) Global Expert. Additionally, as the recipient of a law degree from the University of Sheffield, he taught as a visiting professor of law at the American University in Cairo. Hellyer was a senior practice consultant and senior analyst at the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center. He contributed a post-Mubarak pre-Sisi piece on Egypt to

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studies on international affairs.

Middle East

Source: In 2009, Hellyer gave an invited talk at the UK Embassy in

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. In 2010, Hellyer took part in a series of debates entitled "The future of Islam in Europe" and hosted by the

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in Switzerland. In 2011, Hellyer gave a seminar in

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for the

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on the "Arab Spring".

Bibliography

* H.A. Hellyer. ''Muslims of Europe: The "Other" Europeans''. Edinburgh University Press, 2010. **reviewed by Deepa A. in Islamonline **Review by T.Parray in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs Volume 31, Issue 2, 2011, pages 293-295 **Review by T. Hadian in Emel, 2010 **reviewed by Alexandre Caiero i
''Review of Middle East Studies'' Vol. 47, No. 1 (Summer 2013), pp. 89-91
*H.A. Hellyer ''A Revolution Undone: Egypt's Road beyond Revolt'' Hurst and Company/Oxford University Press, 2016

References

External links

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding: H.A. Hellyer

BBC World Service "Doha Debates": This House believes the Sunni-Shia conflict is damaging Islam's reputation as a religion of peace 29 April 2008

BBC World Service "Doha Debates": Of Minarets, Islam and Switzerland: a conversation with Dr H.A.Hellyer
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