Saleem Haddad completed his academic education in Economics at Queen's University in Canada, and Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, specialising in Middle Eastern civil society and Islamic social movements, and is fluent in written and spoken Arabic.Fluent in written and spoken Arabic, his work experience includes research on political violence and Islamism with the Centre for Strategic Studies in Amman, Jordan, as well as Medecins Sans Frontieres in London. His particular research interests focus on radicalisation and social change, social movement theory, humanitarianism, conflict and Islamism, as well as Islamist movements, ideologies and discourses.