About Khaled Hroub
Khaled Hroub is professor of middle eastern studies at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is also a senior research fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he directed the Cambridge Arab Media Project (CAMP). He is the author of Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000), and Hamas: a Beginner's Guide (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of Political Islam: Context versus Ideology (Saqi Books, 2010) and Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East (2012). His publications in Arabic include Fragility of Ideology and Might of Politics (2010); In Praise of Revolution (2012); the literary collection Tattoo of Cities (2008); and the poetry collection Enchantress of Poetry (2008)
Articles by Khaled Hroub
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European integration
Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.
No to TTIP
Constitutional conventions: best practice
The “Arab system” after Gaza
A combination of political failures, new players and shifting geopolitics in the middle east is creating a more radicalised environment - and a desperate last hope for peaceful progress, says Khaled Hroub.
Hamas after the Gaza war
The Hamas movement will emerge both stronger and unavoidable from Israel's assault on its Gaza heartland, says Khaled Hroub.
(This article was first published on 15 January 2009)
Annapolis, or the absurdity of postmodern politics
The middle-east conference in the United States is a charade without political substance which Palestinians can and should expose, says Khaled Hroub.
Palestine's argument: Mecca and beyond
In the month since the agreement in Mecca, after the summit of 6-8 February 2007 which broke the bloody deadlock between Fatah and Hamas, the implications for Palestine and the region have become increasingly apparent.
Hamas's path to reinvention
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