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William Barnes

From 2012 to 2013, William Barnes was a CASA Fellow at the American University in Cairo. William spent the subsequent year in Cairo working as a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict. He also studied Arabic for a year in Jordan at the Qasid Arabic Institute. William graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor’s degree in history in 2010. He is currently working on his master’s degree in Arab Studies at Georgetown University.

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