Dr. Rola El Husseini

Biography

Rola El-Husseini is an Associate Professor at Lund University, where she has contributed significantly to the field of political science through her research on Lebanese political systems and gender studies. Rola completed her PhD in 2003 from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. Her influential book, 'Pax Syriana: Elite Politics Postwar Lebanon,' published by Syracuse University Press in 2012, is based on extensive fieldwork and analyzes the political system of Lebanon in the post-civil war period from 1989 to 2005. Rola has published extensively on topics related to Lebanese Shi'ism and is currently working on an edited volume addressing the political representation of Arab women during the Arab uprisings. Her current manuscript, commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), utilizes interviews with civil society actors to assess the impact of grassroots movements and external pressures on women's political rights in the Arab world. Rola's research also links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those aimed at promoting equality and empowerment of women in political spaces.

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