Discussion Series on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Please join the Keck Center for the second installment in our discussion series on the Israel-Palestine conflict. CMC professor Hicham Bou Nassif will be joining on Zoom from Lebanon.

Hicham Bou Nassif is the Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Bou Nassif’s research interests span: authoritarianism and democratization; civil-military relations; coups and coup-proofing; security sector reform; terrorism, civil wars and ethnic conflicts. Professor Bou Nassif’s research focuses on democracy and authoritarianism in the Middle East with an emphasis on military politics. He has been researching the role armed forces play in upholding autocracy or facilitating transitions to democracy since 2011. Professor Bou Nassif holds a PhD in Political Science from Indiana University (2014), and a Doctorate in International Law from Universite du Saint Esprit - Lebanon (2006).