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.
- 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)
Professor of contemporary philosophy and political theory
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Former Head of the Philosophy Department
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.
Contemporary Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Social and Political Philosophy
Aesthetics
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