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Lina Khatib
CPD Research Fellow, 2010-2012, Director, Carnegie Middle East Center
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CPD CONTRIBUTIONS

  • An Opportunity to Engage: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Rise of Islamist Parties Jan 30, 2012
  • The Arab Spring Casts Obama as United States Public Diplomacy Messenger Aug 25, 2011
  • The Lasting Images of Mubarak’s Regime Feb 4, 2011
  • WikiLeaks, Al Jazeera, and the Qatari Public Diplomacy Challenge Dec 6, 2010
  • Ahmadinejad’s Public Diplomacy Showcase Oct 13, 2010
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Lina Khatib is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. Previously, she was the co-founding head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Her research interests include the international relations of the Middle East, Islamist groups, political transitions, and foreign policy. She has also published widely on public diplomacy, political communication, and political participation in the Middle East. 

Khatib has published seven books, including Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle (I. B. Tauris, 2013), Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism (co-edited with Ellen Lust, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (co-authored with Dina Matar and Atef Alshaer, Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014). Her published journal articles include “Qatar’s Foreign Policy: The Limits of Pragmatism,” “Public Diplomacy 2.0,” and “Hizbullah’s Political Strategy.” 

Since 2008, Khatib has been a founding co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and a research associate at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. From 2010 to 2012, she was a nonresident research fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy. She lectured at the University of London from 2003 to 2010. 

Prior to joining the academic field, Khatib worked in broadcast journalism in Lebanon.

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April 25, 2013 - Lina Khatib on Syria's Rebels and Intervention on The Atlantic

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