Department of Political Science
Box 870213
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
AL
35487-0213
United States
ABOUT
Waleed Hazbun is Richard L. Chambers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. He holds a PhD in political science from MIT, and before joining Alabama in 2018 he previously taught at the Johns Hopkins and at the American University of Beirut where he served as Director of the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies (CAMES) from 2011 to 2016. He is author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (Minnesota, 2008) and co-editor of New Conflict Dynamics: Between Regional Autonomy and Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa (Copenhagen, 2017).
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Foreign Relations
Globalization
Political Economy
Security Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Specialties
International Relations Of The Middle East
US Foreign Policy
Politics Of International Tourism
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2002
| Political Science
| MIT
BA
| 1990
| Politics, Near East Studies
| Princeton
