Rola el-Husseini
Assistant Professor
Rola el-Husseini is Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She 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, France.
From 2001 to 2003, she was a research associate at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) in Berlin, Germany. Before joining the Bush School faculty in July 2005, 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.
Her most recent publications have appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and The Middle East Journal. She is currently in the process of finishing the manuscript of her first book with the working title "Lebanon in Transition: 1989-2005" which discusses elite politics in postwar Lebanon and the influence of Syria on the country's politics.
At the Bush School, she teaches courses on Middle East Politics and Political Islam, and provides the Bush School with expertise in its core faculty on the Middle East.
Recent Publications
Rola el-Husseini, "Women, Work and Political Participation in Contemporary Lebanese Shi?a Writings", Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 28, No.2.
Rola el-Husseini, "Resistance, Jihad and Martyrdom in Contemporary Shi`a Thought", The Middle East Journal, Vol. 62, No. 3.
