Noureddine Jebnoun

Noureddine Jebnoun teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and African Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service. Previously, he taught in Tunisia at the National War College, Command and Staff College, and National Defense Institute (1998–2004). His main research interests include Arab politics, contentious politics (i.e., people activism/mobilization, and collective protest) in the Arab world, comparative Arab civil-military relations, U.S. relationship with the West Asia and North Africa, critical political economy of the Arab world, socio-political dynamics in the Arabian Peninsula, and cross-border movements including refugees, migrants as well as internal displacement in the Sahara-Sahel trans-region. He holds a PhD in Political Science with distinction from the University of Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne (1996).