Zidane Zeraoui El Awad

Zidane Zeraoui El Awad is a Mexican professor and researcher of Algerian origin who specializes in international relations and the Middle East at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. His work has been recognized with Level II membership in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

Life Zeraoui El Awad received his bachelor's degree in journalism and information sciences from the University of Algiers in Algeria.

The professor did not come to Mexico with the intention of staying but has since become a naturalized citizen, earning his masters and doctorate in political science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He is a self-described “work-a-holic,” and currently lives in Monterrey, Mexico.

He serves on the editorial boards of the Occasional Paper of the Mexican Student Association of the University of Miami, and the Revista de Relaciones Internacionales of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.

Publications His book publications include: El mundo árabe: imperialismo y nacionalismo (1981); Argelia-Libia: Islam y socialismo (1986); Siria-Iraq: El Ba´th en el poder (1986); Judaísmo versus sionismo: una interpretación materialista del judaísmo norteamericano (1988); Islam y Política: los procesos políticos árabes contemporáneos (2008); México: los proyectos de su modernidad (1999); Modernidad y posmodernidad: la crisis de los valores y paradigmas (2000) and Política internacional contemporánea" (2004).

Zeraoui El Awad has also coauthored ten other titles in the field of international relations including Arab Immigration in Mexico in the Nineteenth and twentieth Centuries: Assimilation and Arab Heritage (2010), over thirty three peer-reviewed articles and over 240 articles in general newspapers and magazines, including those in Revista Tiempo, Uno más uno, El Norte and Siempre.