Dr Wesam Amer is a visiting researcher at Cambridge. Since 2020, Dr Amer has been the Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University. He was a Fulbright scholar and researcher at Harvard University’s Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in 2022. He was a Marie Curie fellow at Newcastle University from 2017 to 2020. Dr Amer obtained his PhD from Hamburg University in 2015. His interests in teaching and research centre around political communication, violent language, warfare, and contemporary geopolitics, with a specific focus on terrorism, security, and radicalisation.