Geneive Abdo is a seasoned Middle East expert. She is the author of four books, including No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam (2000) and The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide (2017), and thousands of articles on Islam. She has held positions at the United Nations, the Brookings Institution, and several other think tanks in Washington DC. She was also a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, including in Iran, for The Guardian. Abdo is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim award for her scholarship as well as the Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. She lives in Washington DC.