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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of International Studies

Teaching areas

Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics, Political Economy, Authoritarianism, Political Liberalization and Democratization, Islamism and Secularism, Perspectives on Religion and Sectarianism.

Research areas

Comparative Politics, Area Studies in Middle East Politics, Political Economy, Religion and Politics, Authoritarian politics and transitology, Political Liberalization and Democratization, Sectarian politics, and Secularism.

Education

June 2000 McGill University, Bachelor's Degree,Political Science (Comparative Politics and Political Theory), Economics (Minor)
November 2003 University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Master's Degree Political Science (Strategic Studies), Thesis Title: Syrio-Israeli Strategic Relations: Anatomy of a Conflict.
June 2010 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Doctorate of Philosophy,Dissertation Title: Islamic and Islamist Revivalism in Syria: the Rise and Fall of Secularism in Ba´thist Syria (Nominated for five awards)

Professional experience

2010-2012: Visiting Scholar, Dubai School of Government, Dubai UAE
2008-Present: Senior Research Fellow, ICAMES, (Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies), McGill University, Montreal QC Canada
2014-Present: Fellow, Center for Syrian Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland UK
Aug 2014-Dec 2016:London School of Economics Research Team: Mapping Foreign Policy in the GCC: Resources, Recipients and Regional Effects
January 2013-Present: Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, UAE

Memberships

Middle East Studies Association; American Political Science Association; Canadian Political Science Association.

Contact

lkhatib@aus.edu
+971 6 515 4420

Dr. Line Khatib

Assistant Professor
PhD in Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada

Line Khatib is a senior research fellow at ICAMES (the Inter-University Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies), McGill University, and is the author of a number of works including Islamic Revivalism in Syria: the Rise and Fall of Ba´thist Secularism (Routledge, 2011), and Islamic Renewal and the Promotion of Moderate Islam from Above (University of St Andrews Centre for Syrian Studies and Lynne Rienner, 2012). Her research and teaching interests lie within the fields of comparative politics, religion and politics, and authoritarianism and democratization in the Arab World, with a particular focus on Islamic groups as social and political movements.

Publications

"Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar: The 'Sectarianization' of the Syrian Conflict and Undermining of Democratisation in the Region," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (December 2017).
"The Pre-2011 Roots of Syria's Islamist Militants," The Middle East Journal (April 2018).
“Tutelary Authoritarianism and the Shifts between Secularism and Islam in Syria,” in Raymond Hinnebusch and Omar Imady, eds. The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Factors and Early Trajectory (London and New York: Routledge, 2018).
Karen Young and Line Khatib, eds. Mapping GCC Foreign Policy: Resources, Recipients and Regional Effects, LSE Middle East Centre Papers, Volume 3 (October 2015), http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/64242/1/Cover%20Photo_Doha%20Skyline.pdf
“The Pre-2011 Roots of Syria’s Islamists,” Middle East Journal (In Press)
“More Religious Yet Still Secular? The Shifting Relationship between the Secular and the Religious in Syria,” Syria Studies Journal, 8, 1, (Feb 2016),https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/syria/issue/view/134
“Challenges of Representation and Inclusion: a Case Study of Islamist groups in Transitional Justice,” in Kirsten J Fisher and Robert Stewart, eds., Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring, London and New York: Routledge, 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415826365/
Line Khatib, Raphael Lefevre and Jawad Qureshi, State and Islam in Baathist Syria: Confrontation or Co-optation, St Andrews Papers on Contemporary Syria (series editor, Raymond Hinnebusch), University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland: 2012
Line Khatib and Robert Stewart, “Islamic or Arab revolt?” in Are Knudsen and Mouin Rabbani, eds, Popular protests, Politics, and Post-Islamism in the New Middle East, I.B. Taurus, 2014, see http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Society%20%20social%20sciences/Politics%20%20government/Political%20activism/Popular%20Protest%20in%20the%20New%20Middle%20East%20Islamism%20and%20postIslamist%20Politics.aspx?menuitem=%7B19E11E12-06C7-4230-BA23-4A2B8F174CB8%7D
“Translating National Identity in a Changing Arab World,” Trespassing Journal, Vol 1, N.1, Spring 2012, available at: http://trespassingjournal.com/?s=line
“Syria’s Civil Society as a Tool for Regime’s Legitimacy,” in Francesco Cavatorta and Paul Aarts, eds., Civic Activism in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts, London and New York: Lynne Rienner, 2013.
"Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution, by Thomas Pierret." Middle Eastern Studies 51, no. 1 (2015): 163. url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00263206.2014.941358?journalCode=fmes20#.VVBedSIVHm0.
Islamic Revivalism in Syria: The Rise and Fall of Ba´thist Secularism, London and New York: Routledge, July 2011 (Hardback), 2014 (Paperback) http://www.remote-sensing.routledge.com/books/details/9780415782036/
Khatib, Line. "Syria’s Islamic Movement and the Current Uprising: Political Acquiescence, Quietism and Dissent." Jadaliyya (2012): url: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/contributors/61585. 02, 2012

Conference Presentations

Khatib, Line. "The ?sectarianization? of the Syrian conflict: Reasons and implications for the Gulf region." Paper presented at the Mapping GCC Foreign Policy, London UK, October 11-13, 2015.
Khatib, Line. "The De-secularization of Syrian Society." Paper presented at the Cambridge in Sharjah: Perspectives on Middle Eastern Studies, AUS, Sharjah, UAE, March 10-11, 2013.
Khatib, Line. "Civil Society in Syria." In Civic Activism in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts. 10, 2012
Khatib, Line. "'Forging' Civil Society in Pursuit of Legitimacy." Paper presented at the Authoritarian Governance and Civil Society Actors in Iran and Syria: Challenges, Prospects and Regional Perspectives, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 16-18, 2011.
Khatib, Line. "The Politics of Visuals and the Visual Interpretation of the Muslim Woman in North-America." Paper presented at the The 41st Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, November 11-13, 2008.
Khatib, Line. "Civil Society in Contemporary Syria with a Focus on its Islamic Current." Paper presented at the The 11th CEETUM (Center for Ethnic Studies) Conference, University of Montreal, February 10-12, 2008.
Khatib, Line. "The Syrian regime's conflict with the Syrian Islamic Front and its impact on the status of women." Paper presented at the The 21st Middle Eastern Hisotry and Theory Conference, Chicago, USA, May 20-23, 2007.
University of Chicago, (Chicago, USA), The 21st Middle Eastern History and Theory Conference, The Syrian regime?s conflict with the Syrian Islamic Front and its impact on the status of women.

Awards and Honors

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant •.McGill University. Nov. 5, 2007-2009
Institute of Islamic Studies Fellowship • McGill University. 2004-2006 and 2008
McGill Graduate Research Fellowship. McGill University. 2008-2010
LSE Arab University Collaborative Grant. London School of Economics. 2015-2017
Seed Grant. College of Arts and Sciences - AUS. 2013-2014

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