Resume

• 2017.

  The war of narratives between Trump and Clinton has revealed some deep ideological contrast and personal animosity between two very ambitious presidential candidates. Ironically

  the Obama Doctrine remains a catalyst factor in shaping their political and philosophical differences and nuances of America’s future leadership. Clinton’s platform embodies status-quo politics with some possible hawkish amendments of the U.S. foreign policy; whereas Trump’s vision aspires to create radical change and turn the Obama Administration’s policies on their heads. This report analyses the two diverging frameworks of the U.S. foreign policy vis-à-vis six hot issues in the world: the ISIL dilemma

  the Syrian crisis

  the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  Iran’s nuclear ambitions

  the geo-strategic alliance with the Gulf States

  and the Islamic World. It also weighs on America’s hard choice between isolationism and interventionism starting January 20

  Clinton versus Trump: Two-Distant Visions for America

  Karine Korestelona

  Daniel Rothbart

  This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare

  focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war’s tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare: nationalistic ideology

  state-sponsored militaries

  global media

  and international institutions. Each sector promotes its own constructions of civilian identity in relation to militant combatants: constructions that prove lethal to the civilian noncombatant who lacks political power and decision-making capacity with regards to their own survival.\nCivilians and Modern War provides a critical overview of the plight of civilians in war

  examining the political and normative underpinnings of the decisions

  actions

  policies

  and practices of major sectors of war. The contributors seek to undermine the ‘tunnelling effect’ of the militaristic framework regarding the experiences of noncombatants.

  Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of War

  Mohammed

  Middle East Broadcasting Networks

• 2014

  United Nations

  George Mason University

  BBC

  U.S. Department of State

  Voice of America

  Washington DC

  Assignment Senior Editor

  Middle East Broadcasting Networks

  Arlington/Fairfax. VA

  Professor

  George Mason University

  Program Writer and Host

  London

  United Kingdom

  BBC

  Member of the Panel of Experts

  Greater New York City Area

  United Nations

  Washington DC

  News Broadcaster

  Voice of America

  Reviewer

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  U.S. Department of State

  Affiliate Researcher

  The Moroccan Interdisciplinary Center for Strategic and International Studies (CMIESI)

  Affiliate Researcher

  Center for Narrative and Conflict Resolution (CNCR)

  Affiliate Researcher

  Centre for Studies and Research in Social Sciences (CSRSS)

  English

  Arabic

  French

  Annual Award for Excellence in Programming

  Voice of America

  Meritorious Honor Award

  International Broadcasting Bureau

  John Burton Award

  George Mason University

  The Voice of America Language Service Broadcasting Award

  Voice of America

  The James H. Laue Memorial Award

  George Mason University

  George Mason University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution

  Université Mohamed V Rabat-Agdal

  Bachelor’s Degree

  Political Science and Government

  International Relations and Affairs

  Master’s Degree

• The Palestinian Media at the Crossroads: Challenges and Expectations

  Most political elite and pundits in the United States have been bewildered by the growing popularity of Republican candidate Donald Trump despite his controversial statements about Mexican immigrants

  Muslims

  refugees

  women

  and other minorities. He remains a polarizing figure within the uncharted territory of Islamophobia

  xenophobia

  racism

  and misogyny. This report showcases the socio-economic and cultural dynamics which have paved the way for the rise of Trump as he has outperformed 16 other Republican opponents. It makes six propositions about the driving force behind what can be coined as a new doctrine of Trumpism.

  Donald Trump: The Rise of Right-wing Politics in America

  Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their desired system

  although their slogans ushered to a fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings showcase an open-ended freedom-to question after Arabs underwent their freedom-from struggle from authoritarianism. The new conflicts in Egypt

  Syria

  Yemen

  and Libya have fragmented shar’iya (legitimacy) into distinct conceptualizations: “revolutionary legitimacy

  ” “electoral legitimacy

  ” “legitimacy of the street

  ” and “consensual legitimacy.” This volume examines whether the Uprisings would introduce a replica of the European Enlightenment or rather stimulate an Arab/Islamic awakening with its own cultural specificity and political philosophy. By placing Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square

  this book adopts a comparative analysis of two enlightenment projects: one Arab

  still under construction

  with possible progression toward modernity or regression toward neo-authoritarianism

  and one European

  shaped by the past two centuries. \n\nMohammed D. Cherkaoui and the contributing authors use a hybrid theoretical framework drawing on three tanwiri (enlightenment) philosophers from different eras: Ibn Rushd

  known in the west as Averroes (the twelfth century)

  Immanuel Kant (the eighteenth century)

  and Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri (the twentieth century). The authors propose a few projections about the outcome of the competition between an Islamocracy vision and what Cherkaoui terms as a Demoslamic vision

  since it implies the Islamist movements’ flexibility to reconcile their religious absolutism with the prerequisites of liberal democracy.

  What is Enlightenment? Continuity or Rupture in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings