Christian Henderson
University Lecturer International Relations / Modern Middle East Studies
- Name
- Dr. C.J.V. Henderson
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4995
- c.j.v.henderson@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6846-8449
I am a scholar of political economy and development in the Middle East. My research focuses on the Arab region, with a particular focus on Gulf investment in the states of North Africa and the Levant, rural development and business politics. Aside from my academic career I have 20 years experience of working in the Middle East. I was previously a journalist in Lebanon and for Al Jazeera in Qatar. One of the stories that I covered was the 2006 Israel-Hizbullah war. I have also consulted on business and politics in the Middle East for corporations and governments.
Research
My current research builds on my PhD dissertation, which examined the relationship between the Gulf states and Egypt, based on the exchange of food commodities and capital. I am also interested in economic diversification in the Middle East and the relationship between emerging sectors and foreign policy.
My next project will examine the consequences of a green energy shift in the Middle East and North Africa region. It will focus on the modality of state implementation of renewable energy, and the reconfiguration of regime power through these schemes: economically, politically and ideologically.
Curriculum vitae
PhD Development Studies SOAS 2012-2016
MSc Middle East Studies Edinburgh University 1999-2000
BA Development Studies Middlesex University 1995-1998
University Lecturer International Relations / Modern Middle East Studies
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- , Israel’s weapon of hunger in Gaza . Israel’s weapon of hunger in Gaza: Agrarian Conversations. [web article].
- Henderson C.J.V. (2024), Extractive agribusinesses: guaranteeing food security in the Gulf, Middle East Report 311(Summer 2024): .
- Henderson C.J.V. (28 August 2024), How Israeli genocide in Gaza exposed the West's liberal delusion. Middle East Eye. [web essay].
- Henderson C.J.V. (2023), Unjust transitions: the Gulf states' role in the "Sustainability Shift" in the Middle East and North Africa. In: Hamouchene H. & Sandwell K. (Eds.), Dismantling green colonialism energy and climate justice in the Arab region. London: Pluto Press.
- Henderson C.J.V. & Ziadah R. (2023), Logistics of the neoliberal food regime: circulation, corporate food security and the United Arab Emirates, New Political Economy 28(4): 592-607.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2022), The rise of Arab Gulf agro-capital: continuity and change in the corporate food regime, The Journal of Peasant Studies 49(5): 1079-1100.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2022), Review of: Laleh Khalili (2020), Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. London: Verso. Journal of Development Studies 58(3): 634-635.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2022), The power of food security, Globalizations : .
- Henderson C.J.V. (2021), How have corporate industrial food systems been entrenched into the Arab region?. Leiden: Tiny Beam Fund.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2020), Land grabs reexamined: Gulf Arab agro-commodity chains and spaces of extraction, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53(2): 261-279.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2019), Gulf capital and Egypt's corporate food system: a region in the third food regime, Review of African Political Economy 46(162): 599-614.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2017), Gulf Land Acquisitions in Egypt and Sudan: Food Security or the Agro-commodity Supply Chain?, Cairo Papers in Social Science 34(4): .
- Henderson C.J.V. (2017), Qatari domestic and regional policy: Ideas at odds with identity. In: Mason Robert (Ed.), Reassessing Order and Disorder in the Middle East: Regional Imbalance or Disintegration?. London: Rowman and Littlefield. 117-134.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2017), The UAE as a Nexus State, Journal of Arabian Studies 7(1): 83-93.
- Henderson C.J.V. (2006), Environmental Impact of the 2006 Lebanon War. Beirut: Heinrich Böll Foundation.