Professor salim yaqub biography
I specialize in the history of US foreign relations, with a particular focus on US involvement in the Middle East in the postwar era....
Dr.
Salim Yaqub
Professional Affiliation
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Expert Bio
I received my Ph.D. in U.S. history from Yale University in 1999, and I now teach at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
My area of specialization is U.S. involvement in the Middle East.In my scholarship, I work to integrate the study of foreign relations with an attention to broader societal dynamics. My first book, Containing Arab Nationalism, examines an attempt by the Eisenhower administration to weaken and isolate the radical Arab nationalist movement symbolized and loosely led by Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt.
To do this, the administration tried to convince critical segments of Arab opinion that the Nasserist movement, by seeking Soviet aid and support, was exceeding the bounds of acceptable Arabism. Nasserists countered that any Arab figures who adopted this critique were themselves outside the mainstream of Arab politics, discredited by their as
