Farid Elias Khazen

Farid Elias Khazen (also Farid Elias el-Khazen) is a Lebanese politician and professor of political science at the American University of Beirut.

Education

Farid received a PhD in international studies from Johns Hopkins University. He also earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Missouri State University. In addition, he briefly studied at Cornell University.

Work

Farid has been a professor and Chairman of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is also a current MP affiliated with the Free Patriotic Movement. He received 52.4% of the vote in his district in the general election of 2009, and he won 60% of the vote in the general election of 2005. He makes regular media appearances, discussing a variety of topics.

He has written multiple books and essays, including:

• The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976 (ISBN 0-674-08105-6)
• Political Parties in Postwar Lebanon: Parties in Search of Partisans (Middle East Journal, Vol. 57, No. 4, Autumn 2003, p. 605-624)
• Lebanon – Independent No More (The Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2001, p. 43-50)
• Lebanon's First Postwar Parliamentary Election, 1992: An Imposed Choice (Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies, February 1998, ISBN 1870552741)
• Permanent Settlement of Palestinians in Lebanon: A Recipe for Conflict (Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1997)
• The Communal Pact of National Identities: The Making and Politics of the 1943 National Pact (Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies, October 1991, ISBN 1870552202)
• Winds of Change in Arab World Buffet Christian Communities (translated by Al-Monitor, 7 March 2012)

• http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fas_home/departments-programs/Pages/listing_of_faculty_members_department.aspx
• http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/casar/About/Pages/Committee.aspx
• http://www.aub.edu.lb/communications/media/internationalnews/Pages/intmarch05.aspx
• Challenges and new possibilities for March 14 in opposition. The Daily Star, Lebanon. Published: 2 March 2011.
• http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/l/lebanon/lebanon20093.txt
• Districts in depth: Kesrouan. NOW News. Published: 31 March 2009.
• Beirut Al Yawm - Farid Elias El Khazen - 29 Nov 2014
• Beirut Al Yawm - Farid Elias El Khazen - 24 Aug 2014
• MP Farid Elias Khazen to LBCI: Any International intervention in Iraq to lead to major sectarian war. LBCGroup.TV. Published: 14 June 2014.
• Beirut Al Yawm - Farid Elias El Khazen - 22 May 2014
• Beirut Al Yawm - Dr. Farid Elias El Khazen - 02 Nov 2012
• Baed Al Akhbar - Farid Elias El Khazen - 12 June 2011
• Baed Al Akhbar - Dr Farid Elias El Khazen - 20 Feb 2011
• Daniel Pipes, Review of The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976. The Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2000
• http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674081055
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/4329942
• http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/pspa/elections92.html
• http://www.worldcat.org/title/communal-pact-of-national-identities-the-making-and-politics-of-the-1943-national-pact/oclc/28947796