Jalal Imran

Syria

Comparative Government (MPhil), 2014
St Antony's College, Oxford

Funding: Louis Dreyfus

Jalal completed an MPhil in Comparative Politics at Oxford in 2014. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2012 with first class honours in Economics and a minor in Political Sciences.

He developed an interest in authoritarian political economics, focusing on Arab countries, and worked for the Carnegie Middle East Centre to showcase the influence of economic liberalisation on the social and political foundations of Arab regimes.

Ultimately, Jalal aims to contribute to the political and intellectuals spheres in the Middle East by establishing a research centre, fostering critical thinking and the growth of  effective democracy and pluralism.