Carol Hakim joined OIB as a Research Associate in September 2023. Before joining the Institute she has worked on Lebanon and the Middle East in several capacities. Since 2005 she was a faculty member of the History Department at the University of Minnesota where she taught Modern Middle Eastern History and Politics. Prior to that she was a research associate at the Center of Arab Middle East Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) where she developed and taught in a multidisciplinary MA program in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Hakim also worked as a reporter journalist at AFP where she covered the Lebanese civil war, an analyst on Lebanese and Middle Eastern affairs at Oxford Analytica, a consultant at the United Nations Economic and Social Council for Western Asia (ESCWA), and a researcher analyst for Middle Eastern affairs at the Fiches du Monde Arabe (FMA).