As Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst for Yemen, Nagi is responsible for covering conflict dynamics, politics, security and the regional role of the country. He provides field-based insights and recommendations aimed at resolving conflict.

Before joining Crisis Group, Nagi was a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where he covered the conflict in Yemen, borderland dynamics and local governance transformations, among other issues. Additionally, he was the research manager at the Institute of Citizenship and Diversity Management at Adyan Foundation in Lebanon, a country coordinator on Yemen and Oman at Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem) in Sweden, and a senior consultant at Insight Source Center for Research and Consulting in Yemen. 

Nagi holds an MA in Public Governance from the University of Granada, Spain.

• Yemen
• Conflict dynamics
• Cross-border issues  
• Governance
• Religious and tribal identities

• Arabic
• English

• “Eastern Yemen’s Tribal Model for Containing Conflict,” Carnegie Middle East Center, March 2020.
• “Yemen-Saudi Border Markets: From Economic Incubator to Military Frontline," Carnegie Middle East Center, June 2021.
• “The Pitfalls of Saudi Arabia’s Security-Centric Strategy in Yemen,” Carnegie Middle East Center, October, 2022.