Waleed Hazbun
@whazbun.bsky.social
IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).
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REMINDER: We have a LIVE event in Washington DC on Saturday! Come join MERIP contributors Aslı Bâli, Joel Beinin, Lisa Hajjar, Zachary Lockman, Sarah Leah Whitson, Mouin Rabbani, Joan Mandell and Rick Reinhard, MC'd by Joost Hiltermann and w/ music from the Fast Flying Vestibule!
Honoring Joe Stork, Live in DC
November 22 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
REMINDER: We have a LIVE event in Washington DC on Saturday! Come join MERIP contributors Aslı Bâli, Joel Beinin, Lisa Hajjar, Zachary Lockman, Sarah Leah Whitson, Mouin Rabbani, Joan Mandell and Rick Reinhard, MC'd by Joost Hiltermann and w/ music from the Fast Flying Vestibule!
Is that Omar El Akkad in a tux! I am so happy for him and more critically what this recognition means.. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
Books That Examine the Past and Present of the Middle East Take National Book Awards
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Is that Omar El Akkad in a tux! I am so happy for him and more critically what this recognition means.. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
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NEW: US canceled visit of head of #Lebanon army, @al-monitor.bsky.social confirmed. Haykal was due to arrive today but tension with Congress, differences over Hezbollah botched the trip... www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
US cancels Lebanon army chief visit amid frustration over Hezbollah: What to know
Washington canceled a planned visit by Lebanon’s army commander Gen. Rodolphe Haykal, signaling growing US frustration over Lebanon’s delay in disarming Hezbollah.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
NEW: US canceled visit of head of #Lebanon army, @al-monitor.bsky.social confirmed. Haykal was due to arrive today but tension with Congress, differences over Hezbollah botched the trip... www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
Spoiling a fall morning with some spring class prep.
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Spoiling a fall morning with some spring class prep.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Some analysis on Qatar’s relationship with the Trump administration and the Gaza ceasefire plan arabcenterdc.org/resource/qat...
Qatar Copes with Trump’s Middle East Vision
Among Arab states, perhaps none faces a more complex challenge in managing relations with President Donald Trump than Qatar. Ironically, Doha’s deepening partnership with the Trump administration has ...
arabcenterdc.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Some analysis on Qatar’s relationship with the Trump administration and the Gaza ceasefire plan arabcenterdc.org/resource/qat...
Giving a talk at Boston University this Thursday’s: American Illusions of Regional Order & the Emergence of Turbulence in MENA For details, see: www.eventbrite.com/e/american-i...
American Illusions of Regional Order & the Emergence of Turbulence in MENA
Join us for a talk with Waleed Hazbun (University of Alabama).
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September 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Giving a talk at Boston University this Thursday’s: American Illusions of Regional Order & the Emergence of Turbulence in MENA For details, see: www.eventbrite.com/e/american-i...
September 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Rethinking IR Conference, June 13-14, 2026 at University of the Peloponnese, Greece. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 October 2025.
Rethinking International Relations in Times of Global Transformation | H-Net
Rethinking International Relations in Times of Global TransformationInternational ConferenceDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
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September 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Rethinking IR Conference, June 13-14, 2026 at University of the Peloponnese, Greece. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 October 2025.
La spirale de militarisation de la politique des États-Unis vis-à-vis du Moyen-Orient. A French translation of a memo for the @prismeorg.bsky.social project directed by @esoubrier.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/revue-conflu...
La spirale de militarisation de la politique des États-Unis vis-à-vis du Moyen-Orient
Pas encore de compte ?
shs.cairn.info
September 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
La spirale de militarisation de la politique des États-Unis vis-à-vis du Moyen-Orient. A French translation of a memo for the @prismeorg.bsky.social project directed by @esoubrier.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/revue-conflu...
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The ghost of James Baldwin?
August 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The ghost of James Baldwin?
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What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues.
Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.
abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...
Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.
abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...
What it's like to be a Middle East Studies professor in 2025
Basically, it sucks.
Last week, Tuft's Dan Drezner and my GW colleague Dave Karpf published really good pieces on what it's like to be, respectively, a dean of international affairs and a professor o...
abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
August 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues.
Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.
abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...
Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.
abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...
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The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 56: Regional Order Making after October 7. Download the full PDF here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...
POMEPS Studies 56: Regional Order Making after October 7 - Project on Middle East Political Science
In December 2024, we convened a workshop at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute in partnership with POMEPS and SEPAD to discuss these regional changes and their meaning for ...
pomeps.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 56: Regional Order Making after October 7. Download the full PDF here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...
As we enter another peak season, re-posting this essay.. “Tourism Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Overtourism, Geopolitical Conflicts and Sustainability”https://www.iemed.org/publication/tourism-challenges-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-overtourism-geopolitical-conflicts-and-sustainability/
Tourism Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Overtourism, Geopolitical Conflicts and Sustainability
The “overtourism” is leading to changes in the tourism experience, while making domestic access to tourism more difficult. It also highlights the drawbacks for all states, even when successful, of pro...
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July 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As we enter another peak season, re-posting this essay.. “Tourism Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Overtourism, Geopolitical Conflicts and Sustainability”https://www.iemed.org/publication/tourism-challenges-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-overtourism-geopolitical-conflicts-and-sustainability/
