A/HRC/45/59/Add.1 Annex*** Patrycja Anna Sasnal (Poland) I. Profile Patrycja Sasnal is a political scientist, Arabist and philosopher, specializing in IR in the Middle East with a focus on radicalization, political violence, postcolonial theory and migration. She is currently the Head of Research at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). She is a member of the Council of the European Council on Foreign Relations, European Working Group on Egypt and of the Polish Ombudsman’s Expert Commission on Migration. She was a 2010/2011 Fulbright scholar at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and associate at the American University in Beirut and studied at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III. She has written for The Guardian, Le Monde and Polityka. Her latest book is Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam (Routledge, 2019). Dr. Sasnal lead several European research projects: EuroMeSCo’s project on the Terrorist Threat in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, the „SPRinT” Strategic Partnership in Transition project (Marie Curie IRSES Fellowship) and a EuroMeSCO project on the role of religion in transitional processes in the Arab world. She speaks English, Arabic, French and Polish. II. Education 2010-2013 PhD in Political Science, Jagiellonian University, Poland PhD dissertation: “Between Stabilization and Stagnation – U.S. in the Arab World 2005-2011” 2010-2011 Fulbright fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, U.S. 2015-2018 MA in Philosophy, Warsaw University, Poland Thesis: “Arendt vs. Fanon: On Political Violence in Islam” 1999-2005 MA (Hons) in International Relations (American Studies), Jagiellonian University, Poland Thesis: “Syria in the American Era – Syrian-American bilateral relations 1989-2003” 2000-2005 MA (Hons) in Arabic Philology, Jagiellonian University, Poland Thesis: “Secularism in Arabic Thought. An Overview of the Phenomenon of Secularism in the Works of Modern Arab Intellectuals. Cases of Samīr Amīn, Burhān Ġalyūn and Edward Said” III. Professional Experience 2019- Head of Research, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Poland 2018-2019 Deputy Head of Research, PISM, Poland 2018 - Member of the Council of the European Council on Foreign Relations, UK/Germany 2015-2016 Member of Anna Lindh Foundation expert task force, ALF, Alexandria, Egypt *** Curricula vitae are issued without formal editing. 2