​Waleed Hazbun

Non-resident Fellow, Arab Center Washington DC

​Waleed Hazbun is Richard L. Chambers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama. After earning a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he taught international relations at Johns Hopkins University and the American University of Beirut (AUB), where he served as Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES).

A scholar of international tourism, Middle East geopolitics, and US foreign policy, he is author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (Minnesota, 2008), co-editor of New Conflict Dynamics: Between Regional Autonomy and Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa (Copenhagen, 2017), and a founding member of the Critical Security Studies in the Arab World working project supported by the Beirut-based Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). His ongoing research addresses the politics of insecurity and US policy in the Eastern Mediterranean.

He is currently a Senior Researcher at the research network ​Security in Context as part of an initiative to address the “Reimagining of US Policy in the Middle East.” He has served as a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report and the Journal of Tourism History; on the Executive Board of the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS​); and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Project on Middle East Political Science  (POMEPS).