About

Ranj Alaaldin is a Middle East and North Africa political and security risk analyst. He is a Senior Analyst at the Next Century Foundation and is doing a doctorate on the Shias of Iraq at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He visits the Middle East and North Africa region regularly, including recent stints in Iraq and Libya and has written extensively on MENA affairs for the Guardian, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, Christian Science Monitor and numerous other print and online publications. On Libya, as an early advocate of armed intervention to oust the former Libyan regime, in March 2011 he was part of a fact-finding mission that visited Libya almost immediately after the international intervention to assess the on-the-ground situation in Benghazi and Misrata and report back to UK and US policy makers, as well as western NGOs and journalists.