 She was previously a nonresident fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution and a fellow in the Middle East program at the Stimson Center think tank.Abdo previously worked at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, a project created under former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to defuse tension between Western and Islamic societies.From 2001 to 2002, Abdo was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and received the John Simon Guggenheim award.