Fuad Musallam

Dr. Fuad Musallam serves as Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology within the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham since 2023. His academic background includes a PhD from the London School of Economics, MPhil from Cambridge, and BA in Oriental Studies from Cambridge.

Specializing in marginal urban communities in the Global South, his research centers on:

• Post-Arab Spring political activism in Beirut
• Migrant labor solidarity against racialized inequality
• Participatory archiving as decolonial praxis
• Temporal dimensions of political failure

His methodological approach combines ethnographic, oral-historical, and archival techniques developed through over ten years of fieldwork in Lebanon and Syria. Current projects examine activist persistence amid systemic collapse and antiracist community-building among migrant workers.

Musallam's publications reveal consistent focus on political imagination in crisis contexts, with emerging emphasis on decolonizing ethnographic methods. Key themes include affective dimensions of failure, temporal rupture, and community formation at structural margins.

Awarded Higher Education Academy Fellowship, he contributes to public discourse through BBC World Service interviews and Verso Books publications.

He previously held research fellowships from the Max Weber Foundation and Economic and Social Research Council, teaching at LSE, SOAS, and American University of Beirut before joining Birmingham.