Top scholar to join NU-Q faculty

One of the world’s best-known experts on history, politics, and media of the Middle East, Dr Khaled Hroub of the University of Cambridge, will join the faculty of Northwestern University in Qatar later this year.Dr Hroub, who directs the Cambridge Arab Media Programme, is a renowned scholar and leading author. He will teach courses in Middle Eastern studies and conduct research on Arab media and other topics as part of the university’s soon-to-be-announced research group.“Dr Hroub’s appointment, the first of a series of new faculty to be named this summer will add significantly to our already growing programme on Arab media and culture,” NU-Q dean and chief executive officer Dr Everette E Dennis said.He described Dr Hroub as an intellectual leader with great range and quality who has written histories, works on contemporary politics, and even literature and poetry. Having written books in both English and Arabic, Dr Hroub’s fluency in both languages is “a boon to NU-Q’s Arabic language initiative,” the dean said adding: “With him joining us here, there will be enormous benefits for our students and faculty, and it will strengthen our ties to both our home campus in the US and other schools in Education City.” Dr Hroub is recognised internationally for his research on contemporary history and politics of the Middle East and has been published widely in both English and Arabic. Hroub holds a PhD in international studies from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Philosophy in international studies, also from Cambridge, as well as an MA from the University of Kent in international relations theory and an MA from the University of Jordan in demography studies.