Department of Development Studies

Professor Gilbert Achcar

Key information

Roles
Department of Development Studies Professor of Development Studies and International Relations Research Cluster Member Research Cluster Member Member Advisory Committee Member Centre for Ottoman Studies Member Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Member
Qualifications
BA (Lyon); BA, MA (Lebanese University Beirut); PhD (Paris VIII)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
292b
Email address
ga3@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
020 7898 4557
Support hours
By email appointment

Biography

Gilbert Achcar has degrees in Philosophy (ESL, Beirut), Social Sciences (UL, Beirut) and a PhD in Social History/International Relations (University of Paris-VIII). Before joining SOAS in 2007, he taught and/or researched in various universities and research centres in Beirut, Berlin and Paris. His many books, published in a total of 15 languages, include: The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (2002, 2006); Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007, 2008); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010); Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); and Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016).

PhD Supervision

Name Title
Gabriel Huland The Syrian Conflict and American Foreign Policy in the News
Alexander Humphries The Christian formation of Iraq: A Study of the Chaldean Catholic Church’s role in the creation and development of the Iraqi nation
Ms Lamya (Sharmeen) Hussain Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley
Safa Joudeh Economic zones as spatial strategy in Egypt and Tunisia (working title)
Anne-marie Misconi Dominique Bashir Misconi (1892-1961): a Catholic Orientalist in Twentieth Century Iraq

Publications

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