Jihan Ghanim

Jihan “Gigi” Ghanim joined The S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace in the summer of 2002 and is currently the Director of Programs. She spent over three years in Egypt attending the American University in Cairo where she studied Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute, conducted research for Cairo’s UNESCO office and worked with an Egyptian political party writing for their weekly news publication.

Jihan received her BA in Political Science from Temple University in Philadelphia. She has also completed her Masters in State Craft & World Politics specializing in American Foreign Policy, National Security & Democracy Promotion at the Institute of World Politics in Washington DC.