Nadim Shehadi

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Nadim Shehadi (born 11 February 1956) is the current director of The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University [1] and an Associate Fellow at the Chatham House where he is also the acting head of the Middle East program.[2]

From 1986 - 2005, Shehadi served as the director of Lebanese Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford University .[3] He's also been engaged by the European Union to provide his expertise on the MENA region.[4] He is a member of the executive board of the Centro de Estudios de Oriente Medio of the Fundacion Promocion Social de la Cultura in Madrid.[5] In 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Aspen Institute in Washington DC and in the summer semester of 2012 he was a visiting scholar at Tufts University.[6] He is also a consultant to several governments and international organizations. He trained as an economist with an interest in the history of economic thought. He is a leading scholar on MENA affairs and his articles have been published by major international media houses like The New York Times, The Guardian and CNN.[7][8][9]

Education[edit]

Shehadi received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kent and a Master's degree from the University of Leicester in 1980.[10] His research interests include Arab Spring, Middle East Peace Process, History of Economic Thought, Lebanese History, Culture and Society.[10] His appointment to the Fares Center was in recognition of his scholarship and knowledge of the region.

" Nadim is a highly respected scholar-practitioner who brings many years of experience to The Fletcher School . He is superbly qualified to put The Fares Center at the heart of debates on this fascinating and tumultuous part of the world." - Ian Johnstone, Academic Dean and Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2014

Books[edit]

Nadim Shehadi and Albert Hourani jointly edited the book The Lebanese and the World: A Century of Emigration,[11] a collection of essays based on papers delivered at a conference on Lebanese Emigration organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in Oxford. For more than a century, people have been emigrating from countries of the Mediterranean basin - Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and parts of the Near East - to the New World of America and Australasia. This emigration has formed an important part of the international movement of population which is one of the features of the modern world.

This book deals with one specific movement, that of emigrants from Lebanon who have established communities in North and South America, the Caribbean, Australia and West Africa, and more recently in the Gulf and other parts of the Middle East.The chapters were written by historians, economists, sociologists and political scientists, coming from various backgrounds and disciplines. They attempt to evaluate the impact of the emigrants from Lebanon on the host societies, the process of integration, their economic, political and cultural significance, as well as their relations with the home country and their contribution to its development.

He co-authored a book on The Origins of the Druze People and Religion [12] with Philip Hitti. He also wrote the foreword for Lebanon, Lebanon , Anna Wilson's book on the children living in appalling conditions in Lebanon since the outbreak of war in July 2006.[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies Welcomes Its New Director: Nadim Shehadi | Tufts Fletcher School". Fletcher.tufts.edu. 2014-12-23. Retrieved 2015-06-20. 
  2. ^ "Nadim Shehadi". Chathamhouse.org. Retrieved 2015-06-20. 
  3. ^ "Nadim Shehadi". Middleeasteye.net. Retrieved 2015-06-20. 
  4. ^ "The Tufts Daily". Tuftsdaily.com. Retrieved 2015-06-20. 
  5. ^ "Comité Asesor y Ejecutivo - CEMOFPSC". cemofpsc.org. Retrieved 2015-10-19. 
  6. ^ "Battle of Ideas 2014 | speaker | Nadim Shehadi". www.battleofideas.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-19. 
  7. ^ "How Western inaction led to fall of Homs - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 2015-10-19. 
  8. ^ "The New York Times International Weekly". nytweekly.com. Retrieved 2015-10-19. 
  9. ^ "Nadim Shehadi". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-10-19. 
  10. ^ a b "Faculty Profile Page". The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Retrieved 2015-10-18. 
  11. ^ The Lebanese and the World: A Century of Emigration. London: I. B. Tauris. 1993-01-15. ISBN 9781850433033. 
  12. ^ Hitti, Philip K. / Shehadi, Nadim (2008-03-01). The Origins of the Druze People and Religion: With Extracts from Their Sacred Wr. London: Consortium Book Sales & Dist. ISBN 9780863566905. 
  13. ^ Shehadi, Nadim (2006-11-01). Wilson, Anna, ed. Lebanon, Lebanon. London; San Francisco Calif.: Saqi Books. ISBN 9780863566417.