Bassam Haddad
Assistant Professor; Director of the Middle East Studies Program
Research interests: a) political economy of development; b) violence, terrorism, and US foreign policy, and c) the triangular crisis area in the Middle East (Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon), and the question of political Islam.
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal (www.arabstudiesjournal.org), a peer-reviewed research publication and is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad (www.aboutbaghdad.com), and director of a film series on “Arabs and Terrorism” (www.arabsandterrorism.com). He is currently working on his book on Syria’s political economy, provisionally titled “The Political Economy of Regime Security: State-Business Networks in Syria.” Bassam recently directed a new film series on Arab/Muslim immigrants in Europe, titled The “Other” Threat (www.TheOtherThreat.com). He also serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org/). COURSES TAUGHT • Introduction to Comparative Politics • Orientalism and Terrorism • Politics and Society of the Arab World • The Politics of Economic Reform in the • Authoritarianism and Reform in the • Seminar: Contentious Themes in • Graduate Seminar: Orientalism and Terrorism
Email: bhaddad@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.2962
Office: Robinson Hall A 227
