About
Youssef M Choueiri is Professor of History and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.
He obtained his BA degree in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut. After studying for an MSc in Politics from SOAS, he joined Corpus Christi College, the University of Cambridge, to work for his PhD on historiography and History-writing in the Arab world. He graduated from Cambridge in 1986.
He started his early career as Lecturer and then Reader in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Exeter, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies. After Exeter, he joined the University of Manchester, and then the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies as Professor of History.
Professor Choueiri has published and edited a number of books on a wide range of Subjects, covering such topics as nationalism, history-writing ,the rise of the nation-state , religious fundamentalism, and secularism.
As Visiting Professor at LSE, he will be working on two projects. His first research activity will consist of writing a textbook on secularism commissioned by Cambridge University Press. It treats Middle Eastern secularism in its regional and international manifestations. His second project deals with various diplomatic and political approaches that have been attempted to resolve the Arab - Israeli conflict. It aims to explore the feasibility of what is known as the one-state solution.
Research cluster affiliation
Theory/Area/History research cluster