Dalia Ziada is an award-winning writer and political analyst specializing in governance, geopolitics, and regional security in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. She has been globally recognized for her leading role in the Arab Spring revolutions of 2010-2011 and for her uncommon stance as an Arab Muslim intellectual against Hamas and in support of Israel following the October 7 attacks that Israel endured in 2023. Dalia has been active in the people-to-people Muslim-Jewish Dialogue and Arab-Israeli Dialogue for 16 years. She has also engaged in several political and cultural battles against political Islamists and radical Islamist groups in Egypt, Arab countries, and in the United States. Dalia authored the best-selling book “The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf - Egypt: Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy” (2019). Her next book project, "The Coalition of Odds," explores the geopolitical and security structures of the new Middle East emerging from the regional reshuffle of power coalitions, the impact of the Great Power Competition, and the changing world order.