Waleed Hazbun

Waleed Hazbun is Richard L. Chambers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama where he teaches international relations and US foreign policy in the Middle East. He holds a PhD in political science from MIT and previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University and the American University of Beirut, where he served as director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES). He is author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (Minnesota, 2008) and co-edited and contributed to New Conflict Dynamics: Between Regional Autonomy and Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa (Danish Institute for International Studies, 2017). He served as an editorial committee member of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) and co-edited their special issue “Exit Empire – Imagining New Paths for US Policy” Middle East Report No. 294 (Spring 2020).

Area of interest: US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Critical Security Studies.