Eric Trager - an FPRI Associate Scholar - is the Next Generation Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy anda Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focuses on Egyptian opposition parties. He was in Egypt during the 2011 anti-Mubarak revolts, and his writings have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the New Republic and FPRI E-Notes. From 2006-2007, Mr. Trager lived in Egypt as an Islamic Civilizations Fulbright Fellow, where he studied at the American University in Cairo and received his M.A. in Arabic Studies with a concentration in Islamic Studies. He graduated from Harvard University in 2005 with a degree in government and language citations in Arabic and Hebrew.