Karim Zakhour
Lecturer
- Karim.Zakhour@fhs.se
- +46 8-55342799
- Department of War Studies
- Strategy Division
- War Studies
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I am a political scientist with a Ph.D. from Stockholm University, currently a lecturer (Universitetslektor) at the Swedish Defence University.
Research Areas:
State capacity
Democratization
Political Violence
Masculinity
MENA region
Monograph
Zakhour, K. (2020). While We Wait: Democratization, State and Citizenship among Young Men in Tunisia's Interior Regions (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University).
Articles and Book Chapters
Zakhour, K, (2023) “Entrepreneurs of Desperation: Young Men and Migration in Interior Tunisia” (pp. 109-122) in Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities, Garth Stahl & Yang Zhao (editors) Routledge Book Series Research in Gender and Society
Zakhour, K (2023) “ Tunisien och demokratins inneboende instabilitet” temanumret om ”Mellanöstern efter tjugo års krig mot terrorismen” i Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, s.15.
Zakhour, K (2022) “The Origins of AGE: From States and Markets to Scientific Methods” pp 365-382, in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century, Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert & Franziska Müller (editors) Palgrave Macmillan,
Zakhour, K, (in progress) “A State of Corruption: Young men, the state and citizenship in interior Tunisia” (18p) in Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Emergent Forms of Activism in an Era of Disillusionment, Henri Onodera, Martta Kaskinen, Eija Ranta (editors)he Routledge Book Series: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture. Editors
Zakhour, K, (in progress) “Waiting for the State: Youth and Exclusion in Tunisia” (18p) Whither inclusion? Youth in pursuit of jobs in the Middle East and North Africa, Henri Onodera, Päivi Honkatukia & Manal El Abboubi, eds. Palgrave
Conference Papers and Panels
“Tunisia: Economic and Political Development,” Panel at SWEMENA, Göteborg, 2022
“Public Space and Youth in the Interior of Tunisia”, Presented at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2019
“Democratization as Disappointment” Presented at Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) - The Maghreb State: Past and Present. Tunis 2019
“Corruption as Narrative” Presented at American Political Science Association (APSA) workshop, Rabat, Morocco, 2018.
“Fieldwork and Ethics” Presented at Swedish Political Science Assocition (SWEPSA, Malmö, 2018
“Youth in Tunisia: Between Waiting and Radicalism” Presented at American Political Science Association (APSA), workshop, Tunis, 2017
“Youth Activism in Tunisia” Presented at Reconfiguring the (non) Political. Performing and Narrating Change and Continuity – Summer Academy in Tunis, 2016
“Tunisia in Transition.” Presented at Modernities and Subjectivities: Social Transformations in the Middle East and the Muslim World - University of Venice, 2015. The Nordic and the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
Awards, prizes, memberships in academies,
2015/16: Donationsstipendier
2016/17: Donationsstipendier
2018: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet – 2 months residency
2019: APSA scholarship
2019: Forum for Asia Studies Scholarship