Research Associate
Phone: +961 1 359240
Email: Hakim@orient-institut.org
Carol Hakim joined OIB as a Research Associate in September 2023. Before joining the Institute she has worked on Lebanon and the Middle East in several capacities. Since 2005 she was a faculty member of the History Department at the University of Minnesota where she taught Modern Middle Eastern History and Politics. Prior to that she was a research associate at the Center of Arab Middle East Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) where she developed and taught in a multidisciplinary MA program in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Hakim also worked as a reporter journalist at AFP where she covered the Lebanese civil war, an analyst on Lebanese and Middle Eastern affairs at Oxford Analytica, a consultant at the United Nations Economic and Social Council for Western Asia (ESCWA), and a researcher analyst for Middle Eastern affairs at the Fiches du Monde Arabe (FMA).
The project deals with the rise of durable authoritarian regimes in the Middle East by the middle of the twentieth century against the backdrop three interrelated processes: (1) the accession to political independence of most countries in the region following national liberation struggles; (2) the establishment of a new contentious regional Arab order; and (3) the extension of superpower rivalries to the Middle East in the early decades of the Cold War.
It focuses more particularly on two countries that played a central role in the unfolding of political and socio-economic developments of the region at that time, namely Egypt and Syria.
Author: Carol Hakim
The Origins of the Lebanese National Idea 1840-1920 (California University Press, 2013).