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Daanish Faruqi
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Daanish Faruqi is a visiting researcher at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He has published two books: Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017), which was profiled in the New York Review of Books, and From Camp David to Cast Lead: Essays on Israel, Palestine, and the Future of the Peace Process (2011). He completed his Ph.D. at Duke University, where he wrote his dissertation on the role of Syrian Sufi religious scholars in joining the 2011 uprising against Bashar al-Assad.