Osamah Khalil

Osamah Khalil is Assistant Professor of History of the U.S. in the World at Syracuse University. He is also a co-founder and former co-director of Al-Shabaka the Palestinian Policy Network. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2011. He specializes in U.S. foreign policy and modern Middle East. Khalil is active in the American Historical Association, Middle East Studies Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has written Review of As’ad Ghanem, Palestinian Politics After Arafat: A Failed National Movement (2010) and “Pax Americana: The United States, the Palestinians, and the Peace Process, 1948-2008.” (2008). He is currently working on revising his dissertation into a book manuscript called Constructing the Middle East: U.S. Foreign Policy, Area Studies, and the Politics of Knowledge, 1902-2012.