Dr Anna Viden is a Swedish-American International Affairs scholar and Historian focused on the Middle East. She has 25+ years’ experience in research, writing and public speaking and has previously held academic positions as Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague. Since 2019 Dr Viden is an Associate Research Fellow at the MENA program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm Sweden. Dr Viden obtained a PhD in History at Sciences Po, Paris, France and an MA in Geopolitics at IFG, Paris.