Michael C. Hudson assumed the directorship of the Middle East Institute
at the National University of Singapore in 2010, and is Professor
of Political Science in NUS’s Department of Political Science.
Previously, he was Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab
Studies and Professor of International Relations and Seif Ghobash
Professor of Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University, where he is now Professor Emeritus.
His research interests include the Arab uprisings, Lebanese
politics, U.S. Middle East policy, Gulf security, the Arab-Israeli conflict,
and the information revolution in the Arab world. He has held
Guggenheim, Ford and Fulbright fellowships and is a past president
of The Middle East Studies Association.
