Hilal Khashan
Hilal Khashan is a contributing analyst at Geopolitical Futures. He is a Professor of political science at the American University of Beirut and a respected author and analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. He is the author of six books, including Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.) He is currently writing a book titled Saudi Arabia: The Dilemma of Political Reform and the Illusion of Economic Development. He is also the author of more than 110 articles that appeared in journals such as Orbis, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Middle East Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, Israel Affairs, Journal of Religion and Society, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
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The United Arab Emirates presents itself to the outside world as a liberal and tolerant Muslim country. This isn’t far from the truth. The Maliki doctrine, Sunni Islam’s most tolerant school of jurisprudence, is the UAE’s official religious denomination. And in terms of its economic structure and social discipline, it resembles many advanced countries of […]
The UAE’s Quest to Rehabilitate the Syrian Regime
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Europe’s Influence on Arab Radicalism
European radicalism has had a significant impact on Arab political thinking. After the First World War, German Nazism and Italian fascism appealed to Arabs, who were attracted to the...
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