Mirette F. Mabrouk

Mirette F. Mabrouk is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), where she focuses on economic development, regional security, and sustainable development issues in the Middle East and North Africa.

Prior to joining MEI, Ms. Mabrouk served as the deputy director and director for research and programs at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council. She was also a fellow at the Project for US Relations with the Middle East at the Brookings Institution and was based in Cairo, where she was the director of communications for the Economic Research Forum (ERF).

Ms. Mabrouk comes from a long career in journalism, including over 20 years in print and television. She is the founding publisher of The Daily Star Egypt (now The Daily News Egypt), the country’s only independent English-language daily newspaper at the time. She also served as the publishing director for IBA Media, which produces the region’s leading English-language magazines.

Her work has appeared in prominent publications such as Foreign Policy, The Hill, and HuffPost, and she has been quoted or appeared on major media outlets including the BBC, VOA, Sky News, and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the book chapter “And Now for Something Completely Different: Arab Media’s Own Little Revolution” from Reconstructing the Middle East (Routledge, 2017), as well as the editor of the report Rethinking Egypt’s Economy (Middle East Institute, 2020).

She holds an MA in Broadcast Journalism and a BA in Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo.