Wesam Amer is a Cara Fellow at Cambridge University. He was also a visiting researcher at Hans Bredow Institute in Hamburg and GIGA Institute-Hamburg (Germany) in 2023 and 2024. Since 2020, Amer has been the Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University in Palestine.
Amer was a Fulbright scholar and researcher at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies throughout the 2022 academic year. Prior to this role, he was a Marie Curie Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020. Amer obtained his Ph.D. from Hamburg University in Germany, completing his doctoral studies between 2011 and 2015.
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. He has published several papers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamist movements in the Middle East, and Islamophobia.
For detailed information, please see his personal website: https://wesamamer.com/
