Joeseph W. Roberts, Ph.D., is a politics and international relations professor and chair at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. He was an inaugural Alwaleed Fellow for Oman for the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in 2015. He was also a member of the RWU Fulbright-Hayes Egypt Fellowship in 2011. He edited the Journal of Political Science Education from 2016 to 2022. He was the inaugural president of the Education and Learning in International Affairs Section of the International Studies Association. Roberts published a bppl in 2009, “How the Internet is Changing the Practice of Politics in the Middle East: Political Protest, New Social Movements, and Electronic Samizdat.”

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