Binar Faeq Karim is a political and security analyst specialising in Middle Eastern affairs, with a particular focus on regional security, geopolitics and conflict dynamics.

With more than a decade of professional experience spanning policy research, journalism, strategic communications and media, he has worked with international organisations and institutions including the European Union, the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, YouGov, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS), among others. Between 2014 and 2017, he covered the war against ISIS and its associated crimes across the region.

Binar holds a Master of Global Affairs from the University of Notre Dame, where he was awarded a Graduate Fellowship at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

He is currently an Affiliate Researcher at London Dialogue, where his research examines geopolitical competition, regional security challenges, conflict dynamics and the evolving strategic landscape of the Middle East. His analyses have been published by international policy and research institutions, including the Stimson Center, the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, the European Institute for Studies on the Middle East and North Africa (EISMENA) and the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, as well as Iraqi and Kurdish research institutions and media outlets.

He also appears on local and international television outlets, including BBC, Rudaw, Al-Iraqiya, Asia One, AnewZ and Pakistan TV, among others, providing commentary on political, security and conflict developments across the Middle East.