Subject: Is Egypt Going to Open Up the Next Front of War with Israel?
Featuring: Dalia Zaidi, Egyptian Affairs Expert
Date: October 16, 2025
Time: 12 o’clock, noon
Recently, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi made an extremely belligerent speech in Qatar towards Israel, in which he spoke about a “malicious attack on Qatar which was a huge violation of international law…which has crossed all red lines.” He described the behavior of Israel as “uncontrolled and unhinged which will widen the circle of conflict in the region.”
We have also seen a widespread buildup of Egyptian forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
About Our Speaker: Dalia Ziada is an Egyptian award-winning writer and political analyst specializing in governance, geopolitics, and regional security in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Dalia studied international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, majoring in international security studies.
In the past two decades, Dalia held senior positions at regional and international think tanks and civil society organizations, where she led projects, advised policymakers, and authored articles, papers, and books analyzing the geopolitical conflicts and power relations in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Since April 2024, Dalia has joined the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) as a Senior Fellow for Research and Diplomacy on Arab-Israel-U.S. affairs. Meanwhile, Dalia is working on a research project with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) on the threat of radical Islamism in the United States.
Since May 2024, Dalia has been roaming American university campuses, in partnership with Hillel International and other esteemed non-partisan organizations, to lecture on the changing geopolitics of the Middle East in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks.
Dalia has earned several awards for the impact of her writing and activism. She has been globally recognized for her leading role as a civil rights activist in the Arab Spring revolutions of 2010-2011 and for her uncommon stance as an Arab Muslim intellectual against Hamas and in support of Israel following the October 7 attacks that Israel endured in 2023. Dalia has been active in the people-to-people Muslim-Jewish Dialogue and Arab-Israeli Dialogue for 16 years. She has also engaged in several political and cultural battles against political Islamists and radical Islamist groups in her homeland, Egypt, in Arab countries, and in the United States.
Dalia authored the best-selling book “The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf - Egypt: Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy” (2019) and other internationally acclaimed books dating back to 2006. Dalia’s next book project, "The Coalition of Odds," explores the geopolitical and security structures of the new Middle East emerging from the regional reshuffle of power coalitions, the impact of the Great Power Competition, and the changing world order.
