Dr. Hasret Dikici Bilgin is an associate professor of political science at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University. She studied international relations at the Middle East Technical University and received her PhD from Sabancı University in 2011. She is working on the class dynamics of Islamist politics. She has published extensively on political Islam, party politics and the political elite in the Middle East and Turkish politics most recently as book chapters as well as articles in Review of Middle East Studies, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, International Political Science Review, Parliamentary Affairs, and Turkish Studies. She carried out research in Turkey and Tunisia. She is the principal investigator for the EC Horizon 2020 funded research project DRad: De-radicalisation in Europe and beyond: Detect, Resolve, Reintegrate project (http://dradproject.com) (2020-2023).