Talal Belrhiti
Fellow
Talal Belrhiti is Director of Economic Development Programs at the MENA Center and a founding member of the Maghreb Center, a Washington, DC-based think tank. A former Assistant Editor of the Middle East Institute's Middle East Journal, Mr. Belrhiti served as editor of the Institute’s many publications including the newsletter and wrote several briefs and columns for the Institute. Hailing from the Tarik Ibn Zyad Center for Research and Studies in Rabat, Morocco, he has also researched the relationship between the military and politics in democratic and non-democratic countries through his work at the National Democratic Institute. Mr. Belrhiti was Editorial Assistant of the academic journal Security Studies. He previously assisted United States Institute for Peace resident-scholar George Irani on Lebanese sectarian reconciliation research.
Mr. Belrhiti has served as freelance translator and researcher for Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker and has translated for ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the National Democratic Institute and the United States Army Research Lab. Mr. Belrhiti has also participated in Track II Diplomacy talks and security conferences in the Middle East and North Africa. He has been interviewed by numerous media outlets on the Middle East's political situation and has lectured at several universities in the Washington, DC area.
A doctoral candidate in politics at the University of Virginia, Mr. Belrhiti completed his masters degree in Politics there after earning a bachelors degree in Government and International Politics from George Mason University. He speaks Arabic, French and English.
Selected Publications
Tala Belrhiti. 2000. “Why Did Egypt and Syria Limit their War Aims in the 1973 war?” in History in Dispute. New York, NY: St. James Press.
