Hello,

My name is Ahmed Abozaid, and I am a political scientist. From September 2024 onwards, I will be a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow (Research Associate) at the Department of Sociology, the University of Cambridge. During this fellowship, I will work on an interdisciplinary project investigating the genealogy of state violence in the Middle East and North Africa region. I am collaborating with Prof. Hazem Kandil to investigate the entanglement between colonialism, sharia, and legal hybridity.

Between 2022 and 2024, I was a Lecturer (Teaching Fellow) of International Security & International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I was a fellow at Columbia University’s Program on Exiting Violence. I received my PhD in International Relations and Political Theory from the University of St Andrews, U.K.

I am interested in the study of state-building, political violence, authority, world orders, and the legacy of colonialism and imperialism in the Global South. My work is located at the intersection of International Relations, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Postcolonial/Decolonial Thought, Security Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.

My dedication to the scholarship on the MENA region has been recognized by Arab Citation & Impact Factor, according to which, since 2012 I have been continuously listed among the top three most cited and most influential Arab scholars (among 3000 researchers from over 22 countries in Politics and International Relations).

I am an established scholar of Political Science and International Relations, with an outstanding publications record. Since 2010 I published 2 books in English, 9 books in Arabic, and over 70 peer-reviewed papers in Arabic and English (See my publication page).