Dr Wesam Amer

Dr Wesam Amer is a visiting professor and  CARA/SRF researcher at Cambridge.  Since 2020, Dr Amer has been Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University in Palestine.  Dr Amer was a Fulbright scholar and researcher at Harvard University's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies throughout the 2022 academic year.  Prior to this role, he was a Marie Curie fellow and post-doctoral researcher at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020.  He obtained his PhD from Hamburg University in Germany, completing his doctoral studies between 2011 and 2015. Dr Amer is the founder and first chair of the Middle East Chapter of the Marie Curie Association.  

His primary professional interests in teaching and research center around topics such as political communication, violent language, conflicts, warfare, and contemporary geopolitics, with a specific focus on terrorism, security, and radicalization, particularly in the context of the Middle East and beyond. He has published several papers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamist movements in the Middle East and Islamophobia.