Book:

Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)

"And for a look at the broader impact of tourism on the Arab world, pick up a copy of the excellent Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World by Waleed Hazbun."

                     --Anthony Ham, Middle East, 6th edition (Lonely Planet, 2009), pp. 117-8

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Reviews: The Middle East Journal  63/2 (Spring 2009): 343-4 via MUSE; Choice (June 2009); MultiCultural Review (Summer 2009); H-Net Reviews: H-Levant (November 2009) html ; Anthropology Review Database (Dec. 2009) html;  Journal of Vacation Marketing (Jan. 2010): 75-7; Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 19, No. 1 (2010): 115–116.

See also profile in JHU's Arts & Sciences Magazine html

Articles, book chapters, review essays:

"US Policy and the Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Arab World," Geopolitics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Forthcoming 2010).
 
"The Middle East through the lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War," in Where is the Middle East?, edited by Michael E. Bonine, Michael Gasper, and Abbas Amanat (Forthcoming).
 
"Beyond the Bush Doctrine,"  Middle East Report No. 249 (Winter 2008). .doc   issue contents issue editorial 

"Images of Openness, Spaces of Control: The Politics of Tourism Development in Tunisia." Arab Studies Journal  (Fall 2007 / Spring 2008): 10-35.  pdf.

 

"Explaining the Arab Middle East Tourism Paradox," The Arab World Geographer Vol. 9, No. 3 (Fall 2006) 201-14.  pdf (draft)

 
"The East as an Exhibit: Thomas Cook and the origins of organized tourism in Egypt," in The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History, edited by Phil Scranton and Jan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), pp. 3-33. pdf  Table of Contents

"Reading culture, identity, and space in US Foreign Policy," Review essay, Middle East Report No. 236 (Fall 2005):44-6. pdf version Middle East Report website

"Globalization, Reterritorialization and the Political Economy of Tourism Development in the Middle East," Geopolitics Vol. 9, No, 2 (2004): 310-341  abstract at Geopolitics website article in pdf

"Mapping the Landscape of the 'New Middle East': The Politics of Tourism Development and the Peace Process in Jordan" in George Joffe, ed. Jordan in Transition, 1990-2000 (New York: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 330-345.  pdf  html (draft)

"Enclave Orientalism: The State, Tourism, and the Politics of Post-National Development in the Arab World," in Mike Robinson et al. , eds.Management, Marketing and the Political Economy of Travel and Tourism (Sunderland, UK: Business Education Publishers, 2000), pp. 191-205.

"Rethinking Anti-Colonial Movements and the Political Economy of Decolonization: The Case of Tunisia," Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 1994): 77-106. article html

 

Edited Publication:

Guest editor (with Arang Keshavarzian), "Transnational connections: Political Economy, Security, and the Middle East," special section of Geopolitics Vol. 15, No. 2  (forthcoming 2010).

Guest editor, special issue of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change on the politics and political economy of tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (forthcoming 2010)


Book reviews:

Review of Rebecca L. Stein,  Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism,  (Duke University Press, 2008) in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter 2010): 160-2.

Review of  Iain Chambers, Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity (Duke 2008) in Journal of North African Studies Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2008): 565-7 .doc version

Review of  Roxanne Euben, Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton, 2006) in Political Theory Vol 36, No, 1 (Feb. 2008) pdf via Sage Press

"Hashemite Politics," A review of Betty S. Anderson, Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State (Texas, 2005) and Russell E. Lucas, Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001 (SUNY, 2005), in Journal of Palestine Studies Vol 35, No, 3 (Spring 2006) pdf via UC Press

Review of  Jamal Nassar's Globalization and Terrorism:The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares (Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Vol. 25 No. 3 (2005): 396-7. via MUSE

Review of Structural Flaws in the Middle East Peace Process: Historical Contexts, edited by J. W. Wright Jr. (Palgrave, 2002) in Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 32, No. 3 (Spring 2003): 107-8.

Contribution to a review symposium of Mark Gottdiener's The Theming of America: American Dreams, Media Fantasies, and Themed Environment (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001, Second Edition), in Urban Affairs Review Vol. 38, No. 2 (November 2002): 282-4. draft version in html

"Deconstructing the Algerian 'Nation'" a review of Benjamin Stora,Algeria 1830-2000: A Short History (Cornell University Press, 2001) for H-NET BOOK REVIEW. Published at http://www.h-net.org/~africa/reviews/html version

 

Selected conference papers, essays, and presentations:

Panelist, debate on 'City Planning and City Marketing,' at Studio X, New York. A discussion in preparation for the publication of Al Manakh 2, a survey of new urban developments unfolding in the Gulf region (http://www.almanakh.org). Sponsored by Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with Rem Koolhaas, Archis Foundation and Pinktank. To be held at Studio X (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University), December 12, 2009, New York, NY.
 
"Modernity on the Beach: Views from Southern Shores." Keynote address at  Resorting to the Coast: Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside  conference, 25-29 June 2009, Blackpool, United Kingdom, sponsored by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change in partnership with the Institute of Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. 
 
"Iconic place-making in Dubai and the political economy of spatial competition" presentation at Dubai. La construcci de la ciutat tematica DHUB Sessions, Disseny Hub Barcelona, May 29, 2009. view presentation at http://www.dhub-bcn.info/video/dhub_sessions/Numero3/03_waleed.m4v  
 
"Itineraries of Globalization: The Middle East and North Africa  in the International Tourism Economy," Keynote address at the Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region sponsored by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, and the Council for British Research in the Levant, Amman, Jordan 4 - 7 April 2009, Amman, Jordan

"Beaches, Ruins, and Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World," sponsored by Middle East Studies Center, School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University, March 24, 2009, 5:00-7:00 PM, Miami, FL. list to mp3 at: http://mesc.fiu.edu/materials/27-Dr.%20Hazbun.mp3 

 "Beaches, Ruins, and Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World,� New Book Series, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Nee York University, February 19, 2009 12:30pm-1:45pm

"The politics of modernization, American grand strategy, and Middle East Studies: A critique of the past and implications for the next administration," Council on Middle East Studies, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University,  November 5, 2009, New Haven, CT

"Mapping Transnational Networks of Travel and Tourism in the Middle East: Towards a Pluralist Understanding of Globalization," presented at workshop on Mapping Transnational Networks in the Middle East: Local Logics & Global Processes held at the 9th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 12-15, 2008. 

"American Interests, US Foreign Policy and Middle East Studies: The challenges of policy relevant scholarship," paper presented to MEST 301, the Core Seminar for the Masters Program in Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB), November 19, 2007. 

"Remapping the geopolitics of the globalization in the Middle East" paper presented at Is There a Middle East? conference sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 5-7, 2006.  

"The construction of global tourism spaces"paper delivered at Globalization, Americanization and Contemporary Popular Culture conference at the Goethe Institute sponsored by the University of Bahacesehir (Istanbul, Turkey) May 20-22, 2004. down load powerpoint presentation (notes: file = 6MB1), or see the slides 1-30 in html

  "A New Agenda for Tourism Development in the Arab World," paper prepared for The New Agenda: The Arab World in the 21st Century, organized by Ghayth Armanazi, League of Arab States, Cairo, 2004.  pdf version

"International Tourism and the Politics of Reterritorialization in the Middle East," Precis: The Newsletter of the MIT Center of International Studies, Volume XI, Number 2 (Spring 2002). issue in pdf
 
"The Development of Tourism Industries in The Arab World: Trapped Between the Forces of Economic Globalization and Cultural Commodification," paper presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates (AAUG), Washington, DC. November 1, 1997 html version

"Landscape of Facades: The Tourist Commodification of Petra," paper and slide show presented at the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman, Jordan. April 18, 1998.

"Anatomy of an Uprising: The Social Mechanics of the Palestinian Uprising," Princeton International Forum, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Spring 1989).

 

Newspaper op-eds:

"War Stories: Letter From Lebanon," Baltimore Sun, February 18, 2007; also posted at 3quarksdaily.com html
"Supporting pluralism is the only way to promote democracy in the Middle East," Co-Authored with Michelle Woodward. Distributed as "For Arab world peace, more voices need attention," via MinutemanMedia.org, April 13, 2005" html Published in the Topeka Capital Journal (Topeka, Kansas) April 15, 2005; The Brinkley Argus, (Brinkley, Arkansas), April 13, 2005; Arts and Letters Magazine (Summer 2005).

"Political pluralism: a means to defuse the growth of militant challengers," Jordan Times, April 23-24, 2004 html An excerpt was published in the "Other Views" column of the International Herald Tribune April 26, 2004. See also: Michael Hill "An irrelevant date" Baltimore Sun, April 11, 2004

"American security and Arab self-determination," Jordan Times, October 27, 2003 html

"Tourism--Learning the mechanisms of competitive growth," Jordan Times, August 20-21, 1998 html

 

Letters and Media:

The Marc Steiner Show on WEAA 89.9, May 18, 2009
  Synopsis:  Marc discusses future U.S.-Israeli relations and Barack Obama's role in finding Middle East Peace. listen to podcase

Jumana Al Tamimi, "Exploring diversity," Gulf News (Dubai, UAE), Aug 18, 2008 html

Jumana Al Tamimi, "Tourism boom in the GCC," Gulf News (Dubai, UAE), Aug 19, 2008 html

Waleed Hazbun, "Getting Iraq Wrong," New York Times Sunday Magazine August 26, 2007 html (go to second page)

Staff Reporter, "Mideast states told to tap tourism market," Gulf Times (Doha, Qatar) April 11, 2007    html

Waleed Hazbun,"A sign of the problem," The International Herald Tribune, October 6, 2006 html

On Lebanon 2006:
Waleed Hazbun, "U.S. inaction adds fuel to Mideast fire," The Baltimore Sun, July 18, 2006, letters page. html
Waleed Hazbun, Letter on Lebanon war, The International Herald Tribune, July 17, 2006; html
WYPR Marc Steiner's Show Tuesday, August 22, 2006 "The Changing Middle East"
Michael Hill, "IDENTITY CRISIS: Lebanon's tangled past -- cosmopolitan but divided -- has set the stage for tragedy, again and again," Baltimore Sun, July 23, 2006. p. 1C (IDEAS section).
Waleed Hazbun, "The Palestinian middle class," International Herald Tribune, April 25, 2006.
 
Waleed Hazbun,"A failure to explain faith in port deal," Baltimore Sun, February 26, 2006.
 
Waleed Hazbun,"Find slogan that fits the complete city," Letter to the Editor, Baltimore Sun, November 14, 2005
 
Late summer 2005 Letters about the Iraq war:   html
   Waleed Hazbun,"Perspectives on the War in Iraq," Washington Post, August 29, 2005.
   Waleed Hazbun,"Iraqi federalism," International Herald Tribune, August 24, 2005.
    Waleed Hazbun, "Impossible to put Iraq back together, Baltimore Sun, August 21, 2005.
    Waleed Hazbun,"Take the Long View on Terror," Baltimore City Paper, July 20, 2005.
      

Waleed Hazbun, "Riff on the Sith," El Pais  (Madrid) English Edition  (International Herald Tribune), May 31, 2005 doc

Jennifer Ludden, "Poli Sci Prof's Genre-Crossing Choices Evoke Sense of Travel" NPR All Things Considered, August 15, 2004 html

Gadi Dechter, "The World According to Barber," City Paper  (Baltimore) 10/8/2003 html

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