Department of Development Studies
Emeritus Professor Gilbert Achcar
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Development Studies Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and International Relations
- Department
- Department of Development Studies
- 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
Biography
Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS University of London.
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 20 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, 2024); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010, 2025); Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013, 2022); Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016); and The New Cold War: The United States, Russia and China, from Kosovo to Ukraine (2023).
Research interests
- Globalisation
- Global Power Relations
- MENA
- Sociology of Religion
- Sociology of Revolution
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Anne-Marie Misconi | The Intellectual Formation of the Iraqi Orientalist, Dominique Bashir Misconi (1892-1933). |
| Bryony Wolff | The political economy of structural change: a case study of Egypt and Turkey 1980-2010. |
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