Associate Professor, Director of Studies, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University
Rola El-Husseini is an associate professor with the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. She has previously held positions at Yale University, Texas A&M University, and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. Her first book Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon was published by Syracuse University Press in 2012. The book which was based on extensive fieldwork, analysed power-sharing in the Lebanese political system in the post-civil-war period (1989–2005), and examined the role of Syrian hegemony in underpinning the stability of the Lebanese state.
She has also published on the Lebanese Hezbollah, on Arab Shi‘ism and Iran, and is currently preparing an edited volume on Lebanese Shi‘ism. Rola is now in the process of writing her second book manuscript which addresses the political representation of Arab women after the 2010-2011 Arab uprisings.
I'm devastated for Beirut – a city I thought I hated
Aug 09, 2020 22:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Since the explosion in Beirut Ive listened repeatedly to the song Ya Beirut (Oh Beirut) by the Lebanese diva Majida al-Roumi, while obsessively reading the news and checking on extended family members like any other...
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