Anne Marie Baylouny is associate professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. She specializes in refugees, the dynamics of protest, and Middle East politics. Baylouny received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. Her most recent book, When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon (Cornell University Press, 2020), demonstrates the impetus for large-scale protest in these refugee hosting countries and the importance of daily necessities in spurring mobilization. Her first book, Privatizing Welfare in the Middle East: Kin Mutual Aid Associations in Jordan and Lebanon (Indiana University Press, 2010), analyzed how people created, altered, and adapted identities to establish social insurance institutions amid neoliberal reforms.
