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Catherine Cleveland is The Washington Institute's Croft-Wagner Family Senior Fellow and editor of Fikra Forum. She is the author of "The Word on the Street: Gauging Public Perceptions of Washington, Moscow, and Beijing," which appeared in the edited volume China, Russia, and the USA in the Middle East: The Contest for Supremacy. A member of the West Asia and North Africa chapter of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), she holds a master's degree in Middle East studies from the University of Chicago.

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