Sherifa D. Zuhur is an academic and national security scholar of the Middle East and Islamic world.
She was most recently a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle East Studies, University of California, Berkeley and is the director of the Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies.
[1] She previously wrote, Conflicting Interests in Egypt: Political, Business, Religious, Gender, Popular Culture co-authored with Marlyn Tadros (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press: 2017).
[4] International Fellows who studied with her there included Egyptian field marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; General Sedki Sobhi, Egypt's former minister of defense; and Taysir Abdullah Saleh, defense attache at the Embassy of Yemen and nephew of the late president Saleh.
[6] Zuhur has contributed to governmental and defense studies work groups, a NATO counterterrorism work group, a commission on Yemen, legal rights reforms, and other efforts on numerous subjects including women's legal rights, including counterterrorism and Islamic movements in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the West Bank, Libya, Yemen, Morocco, and Gaza.