Waleed Hazbun
@whazbun.bsky.social
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IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).

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The ghost of James Baldwin?

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Outside my basement office window. There is another with an amazing web pattern in front of living room.

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As we enter another peak season, re-posting this essay.. “Tourism Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Overtourism, Geopolitical Conflicts and Sustainability”https://www.iemed.org/publication/tourism-challenges-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-overtourism-geopolitical-conflicts-and-sustainability/
Tourism Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Overtourism, Geopolitical Conflicts and Sustainability
The “overtourism” is leading to changes in the tourism experience, while making domestic access to tourism more difficult. It also highlights the drawbacks for all states, even when successful, of pro...
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Thanks @hurstpublishers.bsky.social for letting me add an afterword for my book to take into account the 12 days of open Israel-Iran war and the underwhelming US bombing of Fordo, and the ongoing moral atrocity inflicted on Gaza, but god it’s all so grim.

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America's Middle East | Hurst Publishers
From the Gulf War to Gaza, a compelling critique of how and why Washington ensnared itself so destructively in the Middle East.
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