Adham Saouli is a Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. He holds a PhD from the same university (2009). Prior roles include a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at University College Dublin (2008-2009) and a Lectureship in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh (2009-2014). He joined St Andrews in 2014 and served as a visiting Associate Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (2018-2020). His research bridges International Relations and Comparative Politics, focusing on state formation, political actors, and Middle Eastern case studies such as Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Key publications include The Arab State: Dilemmas of Late Formation (2012) and Hezbollah: Socialisation and its Tragic Ironies (2019). He is currently on leave and researching the political impact of the Arabo-Islamic concept of Fitna . Teaching includes courses on Foreign Policy Analysis, Middle East Politics, and Research Methods. His work emphasizes historical sociology, fieldwork in the Arab world, and the interplay between theory and empirical analysis. He edits the Disruptions book series for Edinburgh University Press.









