Haizam Amirah Fernández
Senior Analyst, Mediterranean and the Arab World, Real Instituto Elcano
Haizam Amirah-Fernández is Senior Analyst for the Mediterranean and the Arab World at the Real Instituto Elcano. He holds a BA from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and an MA in Arab Studies on a Fulbright scholarship from Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He completed his studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He specializes in the International Relations of the Middle East, where he has lived for over sixteen years.
He is currently associate professor at the Instituto de Empresa (IE), and has lectured at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Georgetown University, Saint Louis University, Universidad San Pablo-CEU and the Universitat de Barcelona.
Professor Amirah-Fernández has published numerous articles and is co-editor of the book North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).
He is also co-editor of the book The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Assessing the First Decade (Madrid: Real Instituto Elcano and FRIDE, 2005). He is currently preparing a book on Iran and the stability of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
He has worked for the United Nations in New York and for Human Rights Watch in Washington DC. He is a frequent commentator in the Spanish and international media.
Geo tags
Expert in
Spoken languages
Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Written languages
Arabic, English, Spanish
