Waleed Hazbun
Biographic Data
| ID | 378254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waleed Hazbun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waleed |
| FAMILY NAME | Hazbun |
| SIGNATURE | HAZBUN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0370-1382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
La spirale de militarisation de la politique des États-Unis vis-à-vis du Moyen-Orient
Tourism and the making of the modern Middle East
Since its inception the Journal of Tourism History has sought to expand the interdisciplinary field of tourism history to include scholarship from and about regions such as the Middle East. This special issue on 'Tourism and the Making of the Modern Middle East' is based on a conference sponsored by the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) and held at the University of Alabama in 2022. While mostly focused on deve…
Visions and Mirages of Tourism in the Middle East
After years of disruption from war and the pandemic, tourism in the region is rebounding, with the Gulf states emerging as leading destinations. But sustainability remains elusive
Merip's Impact on Middle East Studies
In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, past and present members of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) organized a roundtable for the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) entitled “MERIP's Impact on Middle East Studies.” Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on October 14, 2020, the roundtable was conducted as a virtual webinar. The participants included Joe Stork, Judith Tucker, Zachary …
Merip as a Model for Politically Committed Knowledge Production in Middle East Studies
While MERIP's offered incisive critiques of the power relations that defined the existing field of Middle East studies, this essay explores how it also represents an alternative model of knowledge production, built outside academia, that has helped reshape scholarship and teaching about the Middle East and North Africa and more broadly about the US relationship to the region. The essay also introduces the other contributions in this forum includi…
The Politics of Teaching International Relations in the Arab World
Can International Relations (IR) as it is taught in the Arab world be said to be an “American social science” or is it taught differently in different places? The forum addresses this question through an exploration of what and how scholars at Arab universities are teaching IR and how institutional, historical, and linguistic, as well as political and individual factors shape classroom dynamics in the Arab world. This forum attempts to bring the …
Towards a Beirut School of critical security studies
This collectively written work offers a map of our ongoing efforts to work through critical approaches to the study of security and global politics with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, engaging both experiences and voices of scholars from and working in the region. The unique contribution of the project, we suggest, is threefold. First, we reflect on our commitment to decolonial pedagogy, and how our collective experiences organising…
The Politics of Insecurity in the Arab World
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Assembling security in a ‘weak state
Lebanon is most often depicted as a ‘weak state’ lacking territorial sovereignty and thus fostering the proliferation of violent non-state actors that generate political instability and regional insecurity. In contrast, this essay explores the dynamics of security politics in Lebanon since 2005 through the lens of hybrid sovereignty. It shows how an assemblage of state and non-state actors has been able to navigate between rival understandings of…
Tourism and empire
The ‘age of empires’ closely overlaps the dramatic development of tourism from a largely European phenomenon to a global one. This round table discussion draws together six scholars to explore the relationship(s) between empire and tourism across time and place
A History of Insecurity
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency
Tourism in the Muslim world
In this sizable volume, Noel Scott and Jafar Jafari bring to fruition an effort to pull the field of tourism studies into further engagement with the contemporary Muslim world by addressing questio
Itineraries of Peace through Tourism
This essay examines the efforts between Israel and Jordan in the wake of their 1994 peace treaty to promote peace, economic cooperation, and cross‐cultural understanding through tourism. It argues these efforts failed, in part, because the resulting cross‐border travel experiences defined the border as a marker of difference between two seemingly internally homogeneous territorial nation states, while opponents of peace successfully portrayed the…
Beaches, Ruins, Resorts
Revising itineraries of tourism and tourism studies in the Middle East and North Africa
This introduction to the special issue on tourism, culture, and heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (ME/NA) provides a survey of the shifting relationship between the region and the international tourism economy. It argues that in the past decade, tourists, tourism firms, and investment capital from within the region have been driving the increase in agency of local actors who have used tourism as a means to shape the experience of globa…
US Policy and the Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Arab World
In the wake of 9/11, President George W. Bush downplayed traditional ‘realist’ security concerns by defining America's goal as countering threats generated by the internal characteristics of Arab societies. Bush advanced a strategy of regional transformation based on regime change in Iraq and economic, social, and political reform across the Arab world. This strategy, however, failed to address the security interests of regional governments while…
Re-Mapping Transnational Connections in the Middle East
there is no abstract
Modernity on the beach
The global spread of mass tourism is often understood in terms of the diffusion of practices first developed by English tourists and driven by the seemingly universal processes of urbanization and industrialization. This article offers a postcolonial critique of this approach, arguing it fails to appreciate the political and cultural dynamics of local adoption and remains blind to the role of alternative, indigenous practices. Moreover, as mass t…
Beaches, ruins, resorts
Mediterranean crossings
By Iain Chambers, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2008, 192 pp., $74.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-8223-4150-6 Mediterranean crossings reads like a collection of a thousand messages-in
Nationalist Voices in Jordan
(2006). Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State and Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988--2001. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 126-128
Reading Culture, Identity and Space in US Foreign Policy
Globalization and Terrorism
Book Review| December 01 2005 Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares Jamal R. Nassar Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004 x + 160 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper) Waleed Hazbun Waleed Hazbun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 696–697. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-696 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Globalisation, Reterritorialisation and the Political Economy of Tourism Development in the Middle East
A major limitation of most political economy studies of globalisation is that they view globalisation almost exclusively in terms of deterritorialisation. This essay, in contrast, emphasises how increases in the transnational mobility of people, capital and information can also result in reterritorialisation, which is the increased relevance of location and characteristics of place for global economic activity. In contrast to the erosion of the t…
Towards a Beirut School of critical security studies
This collectively written work offers a map of our ongoing efforts to work through critical approaches to the study of security and global politics with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, engaging both experiences and voices of scholars from and working in the region. The unique contribution of the project, we suggest, is threefold. First, we reflect on our commitment to decolonial pedagogy, and how our collective experiences organising…
Globalisation, Reterritorialisation and the Political Economy of Tourism Development in the Middle East
A major limitation of most political economy studies of globalisation is that they view globalisation almost exclusively in terms of deterritorialisation. This essay, in contrast, emphasises how increases in the transnational mobility of people, capital and information can also result in reterritorialisation, which is the increased relevance of location and characteristics of place for global economic activity. In contrast to the erosion of the t…
Modernity on the beach
The global spread of mass tourism is often understood in terms of the diffusion of practices first developed by English tourists and driven by the seemingly universal processes of urbanization and industrialization. This article offers a postcolonial critique of this approach, arguing it fails to appreciate the political and cultural dynamics of local adoption and remains blind to the role of alternative, indigenous practices. Moreover, as mass t…
Tourism and empire
The ‘age of empires’ closely overlaps the dramatic development of tourism from a largely European phenomenon to a global one. This round table discussion draws together six scholars to explore the relationship(s) between empire and tourism across time and place
Assembling security in a ‘weak state
Lebanon is most often depicted as a ‘weak state’ lacking territorial sovereignty and thus fostering the proliferation of violent non-state actors that generate political instability and regional insecurity. In contrast, this essay explores the dynamics of security politics in Lebanon since 2005 through the lens of hybrid sovereignty. It shows how an assemblage of state and non-state actors has been able to navigate between rival understandings of…
A History of Insecurity
Revising itineraries of tourism and tourism studies in the Middle East and North Africa
This introduction to the special issue on tourism, culture, and heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (ME/NA) provides a survey of the shifting relationship between the region and the international tourism economy. It argues that in the past decade, tourists, tourism firms, and investment capital from within the region have been driving the increase in agency of local actors who have used tourism as a means to shape the experience of globa…
Mediterranean crossings
By Iain Chambers, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2008, 192 pp., $74.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-8223-4150-6 Mediterranean crossings reads like a collection of a thousand messages-in
The Politics of Insecurity in the Arab World
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
The Politics of Teaching International Relations in the Arab World
Can International Relations (IR) as it is taught in the Arab world be said to be an “American social science” or is it taught differently in different places? The forum addresses this question through an exploration of what and how scholars at Arab universities are teaching IR and how institutional, historical, and linguistic, as well as political and individual factors shape classroom dynamics in the Arab world. This forum attempts to bring the …
Globalization and Terrorism
Book Review| December 01 2005 Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares Jamal R. Nassar Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004 x + 160 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper) Waleed Hazbun Waleed Hazbun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 696–697. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-696 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Tourism and the making of the modern Middle East
Since its inception the Journal of Tourism History has sought to expand the interdisciplinary field of tourism history to include scholarship from and about regions such as the Middle East. This special issue on 'Tourism and the Making of the Modern Middle East' is based on a conference sponsored by the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) and held at the University of Alabama in 2022. While mostly focused on deve…
US Policy and the Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Arab World
In the wake of 9/11, President George W. Bush downplayed traditional ‘realist’ security concerns by defining America's goal as countering threats generated by the internal characteristics of Arab societies. Bush advanced a strategy of regional transformation based on regime change in Iraq and economic, social, and political reform across the Arab world. This strategy, however, failed to address the security interests of regional governments while…
Re-Mapping Transnational Connections in the Middle East
there is no abstract
Globalisation, Reterritorialisation and the Political Economy of Tourism Development in the Middle East
A major limitation of most political economy studies of globalisation is that they view globalisation almost exclusively in terms of deterritorialisation. This essay, in contrast, emphasises how increases in the transnational mobility of people, capital and information can also result in reterritorialisation, which is the increased relevance of location and characteristics of place for global economic activity. In contrast to the erosion of the t…
Reading Culture, Identity and Space in US Foreign Policy
Globalization and Terrorism
Book Review| December 01 2005 Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares Jamal R. Nassar Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004 x + 160 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper) Waleed Hazbun Waleed Hazbun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 696–697. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-696 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Nationalist Voices in Jordan
(2006). Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State and Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988--2001. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 126-128
Beaches, ruins, resorts
Mediterranean crossings
By Iain Chambers, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2008, 192 pp., $74.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-8223-4150-6 Mediterranean crossings reads like a collection of a thousand messages-in
Modernity on the beach
The global spread of mass tourism is often understood in terms of the diffusion of practices first developed by English tourists and driven by the seemingly universal processes of urbanization and industrialization. This article offers a postcolonial critique of this approach, arguing it fails to appreciate the political and cultural dynamics of local adoption and remains blind to the role of alternative, indigenous practices. Moreover, as mass t…
Beaches, Ruins, Resorts
Revising itineraries of tourism and tourism studies in the Middle East and North Africa
This introduction to the special issue on tourism, culture, and heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (ME/NA) provides a survey of the shifting relationship between the region and the international tourism economy. It argues that in the past decade, tourists, tourism firms, and investment capital from within the region have been driving the increase in agency of local actors who have used tourism as a means to shape the experience of globa…
US Policy and the Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Arab World
In the wake of 9/11, President George W. Bush downplayed traditional ‘realist’ security concerns by defining America's goal as countering threats generated by the internal characteristics of Arab societies. Bush advanced a strategy of regional transformation based on regime change in Iraq and economic, social, and political reform across the Arab world. This strategy, however, failed to address the security interests of regional governments while…
Re-Mapping Transnational Connections in the Middle East
there is no abstract
Itineraries of Peace through Tourism
This essay examines the efforts between Israel and Jordan in the wake of their 1994 peace treaty to promote peace, economic cooperation, and cross‐cultural understanding through tourism. It argues these efforts failed, in part, because the resulting cross‐border travel experiences defined the border as a marker of difference between two seemingly internally homogeneous territorial nation states, while opponents of peace successfully portrayed the…
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency
Tourism in the Muslim world
In this sizable volume, Noel Scott and Jafar Jafari bring to fruition an effort to pull the field of tourism studies into further engagement with the contemporary Muslim world by addressing questio
Tourism and empire
The ‘age of empires’ closely overlaps the dramatic development of tourism from a largely European phenomenon to a global one. This round table discussion draws together six scholars to explore the relationship(s) between empire and tourism across time and place
A History of Insecurity
Assembling security in a ‘weak state
Lebanon is most often depicted as a ‘weak state’ lacking territorial sovereignty and thus fostering the proliferation of violent non-state actors that generate political instability and regional insecurity. In contrast, this essay explores the dynamics of security politics in Lebanon since 2005 through the lens of hybrid sovereignty. It shows how an assemblage of state and non-state actors has been able to navigate between rival understandings of…
The Politics of Insecurity in the Arab World
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Towards a Beirut School of critical security studies
This collectively written work offers a map of our ongoing efforts to work through critical approaches to the study of security and global politics with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, engaging both experiences and voices of scholars from and working in the region. The unique contribution of the project, we suggest, is threefold. First, we reflect on our commitment to decolonial pedagogy, and how our collective experiences organising…
The Politics of Teaching International Relations in the Arab World
Can International Relations (IR) as it is taught in the Arab world be said to be an “American social science” or is it taught differently in different places? The forum addresses this question through an exploration of what and how scholars at Arab universities are teaching IR and how institutional, historical, and linguistic, as well as political and individual factors shape classroom dynamics in the Arab world. This forum attempts to bring the …
Merip's Impact on Middle East Studies
In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, past and present members of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) organized a roundtable for the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) entitled “MERIP's Impact on Middle East Studies.” Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on October 14, 2020, the roundtable was conducted as a virtual webinar. The participants included Joe Stork, Judith Tucker, Zachary …
Merip as a Model for Politically Committed Knowledge Production in Middle East Studies
While MERIP's offered incisive critiques of the power relations that defined the existing field of Middle East studies, this essay explores how it also represents an alternative model of knowledge production, built outside academia, that has helped reshape scholarship and teaching about the Middle East and North Africa and more broadly about the US relationship to the region. The essay also introduces the other contributions in this forum includi…
Visions and Mirages of Tourism in the Middle East
After years of disruption from war and the pandemic, tourism in the region is rebounding, with the Gulf states emerging as leading destinations. But sustainability remains elusive
Tourism and the making of the modern Middle East
Since its inception the Journal of Tourism History has sought to expand the interdisciplinary field of tourism history to include scholarship from and about regions such as the Middle East. This special issue on 'Tourism and the Making of the Modern Middle East' is based on a conference sponsored by the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) and held at the University of Alabama in 2022. While mostly focused on deve…
La spirale de militarisation de la politique des États-Unis vis-à-vis du Moyen-Orient
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