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Osamah F. Khalil

Contact Information:

ofkhalil@syr.edu

315.443.0464

102 Maxwell Hall

Office Hours:

Fall 2021
Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Osamah F. Khalil

Professor, History Department


Courses

  • 2024 Fall
    • IRP 495 Distinction in International Relations Seminar
    • HST 495 Distinction Thesis in History
    • IRP 414 Global Diplomacy Practicum
    • IRP 499 Honors Capstone Project
    • IRP 450 Undergrad Research Prog
  • 2024 Summer
    • HST 300 Selected Topics - The Cold War & Popular Culture
  • 2024 Spring
    • HST 645 History of International Relations
    • HST 388 Vietnam: Movies, Memoirs and the Shaping of Public Memory

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 2011

Bio

Osamah Khalil is a historian of U.S. foreign relations and the modern Middle East. He is the author of "America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State" (Harvard University Press, 2016), which examines the influence of U.S. foreign policy on the origins and expansion of Middle East studies and expertise from World War I to the Global War on Terror. It was reviewed widely, including in the London Review of Books, Al Ahram, Publishers Weekly, the CIA’s Studies in Intelligence, Commonweal, and was named by Foreign Affairs as a Best Book of 2017.

He has also been a frequent media commentator and contributor, including for the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Al Akhbar, and Al Jazeera. He teaches courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations, the Cold War, the history of international relations, America and the Middle East, and the Vietnam War and popular culture. In 2018, he received the Chancellor’s Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction.

Areas of Expertise

U.S. foreign relations, modern Middle East, Cold War, Arab-Israeli conflict

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Maghreb Studies Association Conference, "Cold War Twilight: Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East in the American Imagination" (September, 2019)