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Ashraf Mohammed Keshk is a research fellow and the director of the Strategic and International Studies Program at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies "Derasat" since 2012. He is also the editor-in-chief of "Derasat" journal, a semi-annual publication comprising analyses and studies on strategic, political, international, economic, security, and energy issues, with a special focus on Gulf and Arab affairs. Dr. Keshk holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Cairo University. His thesis was nominated by Cairo University as the best Ph.D. thesis in Political Science in 2009. For more than twenty-five years, Dr. keshk has been specializing in regional security issues of the Arabian Gulf, as well as defense issues, especially the regional and international alliances. He worked as an academic mentor at the NATO Defense College in Rome, as part of the Crisis Management Exercise (CMX) which was conducted from 2009 till 2018, and gave several lectures to the College students. Keshk holds also a Defense Studies diploma from NATO Defense College, which he accomplished during a four-month scholarship.