Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. From 2023 to 2024, he served on The Post's Editorial Board. He was previously a research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, as well as a contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Hamid is the author of several books, including his newest, "The Case for American Power.