Muhanad Seloom
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Bio
Muhanad Seloom is a non-resident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, assistant professor of international politics and security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter.
His research examines how states authorise power through intelligence institutions and emerging technologies. He is the author of Labelling Ethno-Political Groups as Terrorists: The Case of the PKK in Türkiye (Routledge, 2025); his second book, The History and Politics of Iraqi Intelligence, 1915–2025, is under review at Cambridge University Press.
Before entering academia, Seloom advised the U.S. State Department and the UK Ministry of Defence. His work appears in Intelligence and National Security, AI and Ethics, and the Wolverhampton Law Journal, as well as Foreign Policy, Newsweek, War on the Rocks, and Al Jazeera. He is a regular commentator on BBC, CNN International, Fox News, Channel 4 News, and Al Jazeera.
contact fellowResearch Areas
- International Politics and Security
- Intelligence
- Geopolitics of Technology
Countries of Focus
- Iraq
- Iran
- Türkiye
- GCC States
Education
- Ph.D. Ethno-Political Studies, University of Exeter
- M.A. Comparative Criminology, Bangor University
- B.A. Translation & Political Science, University of Al-Mustansiryah, Baghdad
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