President-elect Trump is expected to announce Eric Trager as Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council, a congressional aide told The Hill.

Trager has served as a professional staff member for Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee since 2018. An expert in Egyptian politics, he also was the Esther K. Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and published a book on the rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood during the Arab Spring.

Trager is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and the........

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