Nelly Lahoud
Associate, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program
Contact:
Email: nelly_lahoud@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Nelly Lahoud is Assistant Professor of Political Theory, including Islamic Political Thought, at Goucher College. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the Research School of Social Sciences — Australian National University. In 2003, she was a postdoctoral scholar at St John’s College, University of Cambridge — UK. In 2005, she was a Rockefeller Fellow in Islamic studies at the Library of Congress. Her publications include Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries, London/New York: Routledge, 2005; and co-editor (with A.H. Johns) of Islam in World Politics, London/New York: Routledge, 2005. She is currently completing a manuscript about past and present jihadis.
December 13, 2008
"If We're Careful, Al Qaeda May Self-Destruct"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Boston Globe, Spiritual Life Column
By Rich Barlow and Nelly Lahoud, Associate, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program
Nelly Lahoud's recent seminar for Harvard's Islam in the West Program — "Will Al-Qaida Self Destruct?" — was the subject of the December 13, 2008, Boston Globe Spiritual Life column.
October 2008
"Islamic Responses to Europe at the Dawn of Colonialism"
Book Chapter
By Nelly Lahoud, Associate, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program
"Whether Renan's views of Islam were defined by a predisposition to an ideological and systematic framework or not is difficult to say, but they did nevertheless grow into an ideological worldview. Despite the numerous flaws in his ideas and the subsequent scholarship that has since discredited him, Renan's ideas have survived to the present day."
