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DR MOHAMMAD ALWAHAIB

Mohammad Alwahaib
Office Location
Sabah Alsalem Campus
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise:
Political theory; Arab modern political thought; Arabic and Islamic studies; Modern ideologies (such as Zionism); German philosophy in the phenomenological tradition, such as the thought of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt; Regional democratic transformation; Youth oppositional movements; Religious extremism.

Degrees and Certificates
  • BA Kuwait University (Philosophy and Anthropology)
  • Master Degree in Philosophy, Boston College, USA (with distinction)
  • PhD in Philosophy, Florida State University, USA

Dissertation: "Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Political Thinking" (2006)

Key Responsibilities

Professor of contemporary philosophy and political theory

Professional Experience
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Former Head of the Philosophy Department
Research Interests

Areas of Expertise:
Political theory; Arab modern political thought; Arabic and Islamic studies; Modern ideologies (such as Zionism); German philosophy in the phenomenological tradition, such as the thought of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt; Regional democratic transformation; Youth oppositional movements; Religious extremism.

Academic Subjects

Contemporary Philosophy

Political Philosophy

Social and Political Philosophy

Aesthetics

Publications
  • Secularism in the Thought of Fuad Zakaria, Bulletin of Faculty of Arts

    2012, Alexandria University

  • Al-Ghazali and Descartes from Doubt to Certainty: A Phenomenological Approach, Discusiones Filosóficas 18 (31 July - December): 15-40. 2017.

  • Revolution in the thought of Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation. Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 2016

  • John Rawls' Theory of Civil Disobedience and Its Implications. Published by Eastern Studies Journal, College of Arts, Cairo University, 2013

  • Pitirim Sorokin and the Philosophy of History: from Sexual Revolution to the Decline of the West. Arab Journal of Human Sciences, Kuwait University, 2015

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah's Theory of Honour between Theory and Practice. Accepted for publication in Arab Journal of Human Sciences, Kuwait University, 2017

  • A translation into Arabic of David Miller's book "Political Philosophy: A very Short Introduction",  2014