Layla Saleh

Dr. Layla Saleh is Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Demos-Tunisia. She also heads the Women in Democratic Sustainability Program. A political scientist by training, she specializes in Arab politics, protest movements, and democratization. Her publications include the book US Hard Power in the Arab World: Resistance, the Syrian Uprising, and the US War on Terror (Routledge, 2017), COVID-19 and Risk Society Across the MENA Region: Assessing Governance, Democracy, and Inequality (IB Tauris, 2022, co-edited with Larbi Sadiki), Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia: A Century of Protestscapes (co-authored; OUP, 2024) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She has taught at Qatar University’s Department of International Affairs, and is currently Research Fellow at the Center For Relational Studies on Global Crises, Chiba University (Japan). She is also Associate Editor of the Brill journal Protest.