Title: "Jet Set Frontiers: Tourism, Hijackings, Petrodollars, and the Politics of Aeromobility from Beirut to the Gulf"
Speaker: Dr. Waleed Hazbun, Director of The Center for Arab and Middle East Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut
Description:
The presentation explores how different Middle Eastern cities became incorporated into US-centered global regimes of aeromobility and how those regimes were unmade by radical politics, rivals firms, and economic crisis leading to the eventual rise of petrodollar-fueled networks based in the Gulf.
Bio:
Waleed Hazbun is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut (AUB) where he serves as Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the MIT and before joining AUB in 2010 taught at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (Minnesota, 2008) and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Tourism History.
Lunch Served
Cost: Free