Rola el-Husseini
Assistant Professor
Rola el-Husseini holds a BA from the American U. of Beirut, an M.A. from the University of London and a Ph.D. in Political Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. From 2001 to 2003 she was a research associate at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) in Berlin with a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation. She was a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Center for International and Areas Studies and a lecturer in the Sociology department at Yale University in 2004 and 2005.
At the Bush School, she teaches courses on Middle East Politics, Political Islam, and Authoritarianism in the Arab World and provides the Bush School with expertise in its core faculty in the Middle East. She is currently in the process of finishing the manuscript for her book on elite politics in postwar Lebanon. Her second research project is a comparative study of the impact of Iran on Iraqi and Lebanese Shi`a political thought.
