Abdelfattah Naoum holds a political science PhD from the Mohammed V University in Rabat. He focuses on public affairs and democratic and geopolitical transition. He is a contributor to the Fikra Forum of The Washington Institute and the Sada journal rooted in Carnegie Endowment's Middle East program. Naoum has worked as a correspondent for As-Safir from Morocco and his work has been published in many Moroccan newspapers such as Hespress, Al Massae and Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, in the Egyptian Rose al-Yusuf magazine and in the Lebanese newspapers of Al-Binaa and Al-Ittihad.