Marwa Daoudy, PhD

Dr. Marwa Daoudy is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) and the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Amongst her recent publications features a report on A Year of Climate Science in Review written with 65 leading scientists and launched at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) (November 2022) as well as articles titled What is Climate Change? Framing Risks around Water, Food and Migration in the Middle East and North Africa (w/ J. Sowers and E. Weinthal) (WIREs Water, 2022), Water Weaponization in the Syrian Conflict: Strategies of Domination and Cooperation (International Affairs, 2020), and Scorched Earth: Climate and Conflict in the Middle East (Foreign Affairs, 2022) (selected articles). Dr. Daoudy 's second book on The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security (Cambridge University Press, 2020) won the 2020 Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize by the International Studies Association, awarded for the best books in the field of environmental studies. She is writing a new book on climate security in the Middle East and North Africa which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. 

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