Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (202) 735-7935
American University in Cairo
New Cairo
Cairo
Egypt
ABOUT
Associate Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Emeritus. Research and teaching include environmental politics and culture, hydropolitics, and Palestine. Taught als (2009-011) at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Qatar. In 2012/2013 Yale University. Received Ph.D. from M.I.T in 1986. Has been a Fulbright Fellow in Jerusalem (1993-94)and a Coca-Cola Fellow at the MacMillan Center, Yale University (2012-013). Published and edited volumes and articles on natural resources conflict, especially water and oil, and on culture and the environment. He is a contributor to Mada Masr and Jadaliyya. Elmusa is a poet, his book Flawed Landscape was published in 2008, Interlink Publishers.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Environment
Political Economy
Arab Studies
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Palestine
Specialties
Environment: Int'l Politics And Culture
Hydropolitics
Palestine
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 1986
| Urban Stds & Plng
| MIT
Abstracts
Damietta versus Agrium: Environmental Activism and Political Change in Egypt
Under the Forest of Text: 1948 De-populated and Largely Destroyed Palestinian Villages
The Ecological Bedouin: Ibn Khaldun and Desert Literature
Bedouin, Place, and Environment in Desert Literature
