Jeffrey G. Karam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He is currently a Research Fellow with the Forum Transregionale Studien’s Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe (EUME) program and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin. Karam is the editor of The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year, co-editor of The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution, and one of the editors of Global Authoritarianism: Perspectives and Contestations from the South. Karam is the author of numerous publications, and his research has been published in academic and public outlets, including Intelligence and National Security, Arab Studies Journal, Journal of Political Science Education, Jadaliyya, The Washington Post, openDemocracy, Daily Star Lebanon, and Megaphone. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis University, an M.A. in Politics from the American University of Beirut, and a dual B.A. in International Affairs and Diplomacy from Notre Dame University, Louaize. Karam is a member of AGYA (Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities).