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Professional Affiliation

Nonresident Fellow at the Middle East Program of the Atlantic Council 

Expert Bio

Holly Dagres is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council鈥檚 Middle East Programs. She is also the editor of the as well as blog and curator for the weekly newsletter, .

Before joining the Atlantic Council, Dagres worked as a freelance Iran analyst, regularly following traditional and social media in English and Persian. She also worked as the assistant editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, associated with the American University in Cairo鈥檚 Global Affairs and Public Policy School. She regularly gives analysis for television, radio, and print, including BBC News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, the New York Times, and the Telegraph. Her writing on Iranian affairs has appeared in numerous publications including Al Jazeera, Al-Monitor, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Foreign Policy, the Huffington Post, and Washington Post.

Dagres received a master鈥檚 degree in political science at the American University in Cairo, and a bachelor鈥檚 degree in political science and French from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Born in Los Angeles, Dagres spent her adolescent years in Iran, from 1999 to 2006, during which time she graduated from Tehran International School. She is fluent in Persian.