Haisam Hassanein

Overview:
Haisam Hassanein is an adjunct fellow at the Zionist Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). He previously worked at the AIPAC-funded Washington Institute. Hassanein is focused on promoting Israeli foreign policy goals in the Middle East and lobbying US policymakers to implement such goals. One of Hassanein’s current priorities is assisting Israeli commercial diplomacy with Arab states, hence cooperating with the shadowy “Sharaka Institute”.¹

Biography

Haisam Hassanein is an Egyptian-born sellout and a Zionist propagator. Having graduated from Pennsylvania’s Lebanon Valley College, earning a BA in political science, Hassanein interned at the Washington Institute (WINEP) in 2014. The following year, he entered the MA program of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University. Having finished his MA, Haisam claims to be “the first Egyptian to give a graduation valedictory speech at an Israeli academic institution”.²
Hassanein visited Israel yet again, at the invitation of the Sharaka Institute in 2022.³ The Sharaka Institute currently operates as a long-term Zionist soft diplomacy outreach program in the Arab Gulf region, from propping up social media campaigns in support of the regime to hosting influential individuals from Israel to the UAE and vice versa.

Hassanein visited Israel in 2022 at the invitation of Sharaka

Acting as American-Zionist Agitator

As an alumnus of FDD’s National Security Fellowship Program, Hassanein is an adjunct fellow at the FDD, where he seeks to promote Israeli relations with Arab and Muslim countries. Haisam was also a contributor to the Fikra Forum and a research fellow at Washington Institute focusing on Egyptian-Israeli relations and US policy towards the Middle East. The forum was initiated in 2010 at the beginning of the Arab Spring. The platform’s bilingual framework addresses the DC policy community as well as both English- and Arabic-speaking societies. Earlier, Haisam was the WINEP’s 2016-2017 Glazer Fellow, in which he researched economic relations between Israel and the Arab states.