Simon Waldman

Dr Simon A. Waldman is Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London. He obtained his MA and PhD also from the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, KCL, having earlier read Politics and Sociology at Brunel University.

Simon’s research focuses on international diplomacy towards the Middle East, statebuilding and leadership in the region, Turkish history and politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict from a historical perspective. He is the head of the Turkish Studies Research Group at King’s College London.

Simon’s latest book is Anglo –American Diplomacy and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Palgrave MacMillan), and he is the co-author of the forthcoming The New Turkey and its Discontents (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2016).

He contributes to media outlets such as Haaretz, Al-Monitor, Open Democracy, City AM and the Hurriyet Daily News. In addition, he appears regularly on a wide variety of television and radio programmes commenting on political developments in the Middle East. Some of the outlets he has commented for had included, Bloomberg, BBC World Service, Channel 4 News, CNN, Monocle Radio and Levant T.