Dalia Ghanem is a Senior MENA Analyst at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), where she is responsible for analysis and research on the Middle East and North Africa region. Her research interests focus on EU-MENA relations.

Prior to joining the EUISS, she was a Senior Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where she focused on Algeria’s political, economic, social and security developments. Her research also examined political violence, radicalisation, civil-military relationships, transborder dynamics and gender.

She has been a guest speaker on these issues at various conferences and is a regular commentator in various Arab and international print and broadcast media in French, English and Arabic.

Prior to her time at Carnegie, she was a Teaching Associate at Williams College in Massachusetts, and worked as a Research Assistant at the ARPO Center for Political Analysis and Regulation at the University of Versailles.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a MA in Political Science from the Sorbonne University in Paris, a MA in Political Science from Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and is a graduate of the University of Algiers.