Dr. Jeffrey G. Karam is an assistant professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University and a research associate at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative. He is currently a visiting research fellow with the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien, and a research affiliate at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics and the Otto-Suhr Institute of Political Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin. Karam is the author and editor of numerous publications, including The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year (London: I.B. Tauris and Bloomsbury, 2020). Karam is the co-editor of The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution, which I.B. Tauris and Bloomsbury will publish in 2022. He tweets @JGKaram