Full Name
Dr. Marwa Maziad
Job Title
Visiting Assistant Professor, International Relations and Israel Studies
Company
University of Maryland
Speaker Bio
Dr. Marwa Maziad is a Non-resident Scholar with MEI's Defense and Security Program, a Scholar at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, and a former Visiting Assistant Professor at Seattle University. She is also a Senior Fellow at American University’s Center for Israel Studies in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Maziad specializes in civil-military relations. An Egyptian-American with 20 years of experience teaching and lecturing internationally in higher-education institutions in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, she is a published author in peer-reviewed academic and policy journals that cover international relations, global security, U.S. foreign and defense policies, and civil-military relations.
Her current book project builds on her research at the University of Washington titled, “Middle East Militaries: In and Out of Politics and Economies, due to External Threat Perceptions—A Dynamic Regional Order Approach to Civil–military Relations. Comparative Cases of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel."
Dr. Maziad held academic faculty positions at Qatar University and Northwestern University in Qatar and published heavily on Gulf security affairs. She is the co-editor of The Arab Gulf States and the West: Perceptions and Realities — Opportunities and Perils and the author of one of its chapters “The Turkish Burden: The cost of the Turkey-Qatar alliance and hard power projection into Qatar’s foreign policy” (UCLA Center for Middle East Development, Routledge, 2019)
Dr. Maziad recently contributed a chapter on future(s) of Middle East to the US Air Force's “Global Futures Report: Alternative Futures of Geopolitical Competition in a Post-Covid-19 World.”
Dr. Maziad specializes in civil-military relations. An Egyptian-American with 20 years of experience teaching and lecturing internationally in higher-education institutions in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, she is a published author in peer-reviewed academic and policy journals that cover international relations, global security, U.S. foreign and defense policies, and civil-military relations.
Her current book project builds on her research at the University of Washington titled, “Middle East Militaries: In and Out of Politics and Economies, due to External Threat Perceptions—A Dynamic Regional Order Approach to Civil–military Relations. Comparative Cases of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel."
Dr. Maziad held academic faculty positions at Qatar University and Northwestern University in Qatar and published heavily on Gulf security affairs. She is the co-editor of The Arab Gulf States and the West: Perceptions and Realities — Opportunities and Perils and the author of one of its chapters “The Turkish Burden: The cost of the Turkey-Qatar alliance and hard power projection into Qatar’s foreign policy” (UCLA Center for Middle East Development, Routledge, 2019)
Dr. Maziad recently contributed a chapter on future(s) of Middle East to the US Air Force's “Global Futures Report: Alternative Futures of Geopolitical Competition in a Post-Covid-19 World.”
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