Jeffrey G. Karam

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lebanese American University

Jeffrey G. Karam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Forum Transregionale Studien’s Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe (EUME) program and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin. He has held postdoctoral fellowships and visiting professorships at Harvard University, Boston University, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. From 2018-2022, Karam was a non-resident Research Associate at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative. As a scholar between Beirut and Berlin, Karam's research and writing focus on the politics of intelligence and foreign policy, revolutions and counter-revolutions, and transformational moments of political change in West Asia and North Africa, with an emphasis on the Arab world. Karam is the editor of The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year (London: I.B. Tauris and Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor of The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution (London: I.B. Tauris and Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-editor of Global Authoritarianism: Perspectives and Contestations from the South (Berlin and New York: Transcript and Columbia University Press, 2022). Karam is the author of numerous publications, and his research has been published in academic and public outlets, including Intelligence and National Security, the Arab Studies Journal, Journal of Political Science Education, The Washington Post, H-Diplo/ISSF, openDemocracy, TRAFO, the Daily Star Lebanon, Megaphone, Jadaliyya.