Hussam Hussein is a Departmental Lecturer and Research Fellow in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK. He obtained his PhD degree from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia – Norwich, UK. His PhD thesis investigated the discourse of water scarcity in the case of Jordan, and its impacts on transboundary water governance. After his PhD, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute, American University of Beirut, Lebanon and at the University of Kassel, Germany, working on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Mediterranean Region. His research focuses on the role of discourses in shaping water policies in the Middle East, on transboundary water governance and critical hydropolitics, and on issues related to the political economy of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. Hussam obtained his BA and MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Trieste – Gorizia (Italy), studied Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS, University of London, and obtained an MA in Interdisciplinary European Studies from the College of Europe.
