Zineb Riboua

Zineb Riboua is a research fellow and program manager of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She specializes in Chinese and Russian involvement in the Middle East, the Sahel, and North Africa, great power competition in the region, and Israeli-Arab relations.

Prior to joining Hudson Institute, Ms. Riboua was a research assistant at the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, where she worked on Jewish identity in Morocco, Moroccan-Israeli relations, and the cultural impacts of the Abraham Accords. 

Ms. Riboua’s pieces and commentary have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, the Jerusalem Post, Tablet, and other outlets.

Ms. Riboua is an associate at the Association for Global Political Thought at Harvard University and a member of Tikvah Fund’s Young Professional Advisory Council.

Ms. Riboua holds a master’s of public policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a certificate in international relations and politics from Magdalene College, Cambridge University. She did her undergraduate studies in France, where she attended French preparatory classes and HEC Paris’ Grande Ecole program. Ms. Riboua is a native of Morocco, and she speaks Arabic and French.