Koert Debeuf

Koert Debeuf has a PhD in Philosophy and a MA in History. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor in Middle East Studies at the Brussels School of Governance and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. From 2003 to 2008 Debeuf was speechwriter and spokesperson of the Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. From 2011 until 2016 he lived in Cairo from where he followed the Arab revolutions from Morocco to Turkey. His most recent books "Inside the Arab Revolution. Three Years on the Front Line of the Arab Spring (Lannoo, 2014) and "Tribalization. Why War is Coming" (ASP, 2019) have been translated in Arabic. Debeuf is a columnist at De Standaard newspaper and currently Editor in Chief of the EUobsever. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Debeuf, K., "Is the Sudanese revolt a revolution?", in Rowaq al Arabi, online publication 2020-02-05.

Debeuf, K., "Damnatio Memoriae. On Deleting the East from Western History", in New England Journal for Public Policy, 2020, 32 (2), 1-12, 8.

Debeuf, K., Tribalization. Why War is Coming, ASP, Brussels, 2019.

Debeuf, K., "The Arab Spring Seven Years On: Failure or Just the Beginning?", in Turkish Policy Quarterly, December 2017, 16 (3), 41-48, 8.

Debeuf, K, Inside the Arab Revolution. Three Years at the Front Line of the Arab Spring, Tielt, Lannoo, 2014.