Biography:

Dr. Hussam Hussein’s research focuses on the role of discourses in shaping water policies in the Middle East, on transboundary water governance, and on issues related to the political economy of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. Hussam has also worked on issues of sustainable development and environmental governance for the Italian Embassy in Jordan, the European Parliament, the World Bank and UNICEF. He obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia with a thesis on hydropolitics and discourses of water scarcity in the case of Jordan.

On what would have been Jamal Khashoggi's 63rd birthday, three years after the Saudi journalist was executed in his homeland's Istanbul embassy, we are joined by Oscar-winning documentarian Bryan Fogel who directed The Dissident.

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