Mansour is an Egyptian-American democracy and human rights advocate, best known for his work defending journalists and helping Arab Spring organizers, as well as for his research expertise in foreign policy. He is currently the Co-Founder of Janoub Group, a Global South-centered peacebuilding and democracy consultancy, and co-host of the Janoub podcast, launching August 2026.

He brings two decades of experience across grassroots organizing, press freedom, and civil society capacity-building, including eleven years leading the Middle East and North Africa program at the Committee to Protect Journalists and five years managing democracy programs at Freedom House. He has trained thousands of activists, journalists, and election monitors across the Middle East, testified before Congress, and been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Foreign Policy.

He has been recognized for his work by the Diplomatic Courier as a top foreign policy professional and was awarded a Tufts Alumni Award for his human rights work. He has a master’s in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s in education from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.

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