Office: 321 Stratton Hall
Phone:
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Email:
hamery@mines.edu
Bio
Hussein A. Amery is an Associate Professor at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. His BA (University of Calgary), MA (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Ph.D. (McMaster University) are all in Geography. He was a faculty member at the universities of Toronto (Ontario), Bishop’s (Quebec) and Lethbridge (Alberta). He has written about water management and politics in the Middle East, and in Lebanon. He published a book titled Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace (2000 -- with A.T. Wolf; University of Texas Press). He also published articles or chapters on Islam and the Environment, the Role of Dams in Lebanon’s Water Management, Islamic water management, and the looming threat of water wars in the Middle East.
At Colorado School of Mines, Dr. Amery teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on political economy of the Middle East, global hydropolitics, geopolitics, geography of the Middle East, war and peace in the Middle East, and other courses.
Dr. Amery is an Associate Editor of the Arab World Geographer, and the Director (2004-2006) of the Asian Geography Speciality Group within the Association of the American Geographers (AAG). Courses Taught
SYGN 200 Human Systems
LAIS 339 International Political Economy Of The Middle East
LAIS 399 Geography Of The Middle East
LAIS 499 Global Hydropolitics
LAIS 560 Global Geopolitics
Scholarship
- Amery, H.A. (2006). Hydro-geography in the Middle East and North Africa In B. Mowell (Ed.). Teaching About the Islamic World. Washington D.C.: National Council for Geographic Education.
- Amery. H.A. 2005. Article on "Water" Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. New York: Macmillan Reference.. Carl Mitcham as Editor-in-Chief.
- Amery, H. A. and Karen B. Wiley.( 2003). Resolution of international water conflicts: from the US southwest to the Euphrates River basin states. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2: Pp: 226-239.
- Amery, Hussein. (2003) Media in the Politics of Water Development: The Case of Wazzani Spring, Lebanon. Journal of Social Affairs. Spring. 20(77).p. 27-48.
- Amery, H.A. (2002). Water Wars in the Middle East: A Looming Threat. GeoJournal. 168(1), pp.1-11.
- Amery, H.A. (2002). Irrigation Planning in Lebanon: Challenges and Opportunities. In Bicak, H. A. and O. Mehmet (Eds. 2001). Water Resource Management: Traditional and Modern Irrigation Technologies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Ottawa: International Development and Research Center. P. 111-123.
- H.A. and A. T. Wolf (eds.–2000) Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace.. Austin: University of Texas Press
- Holubeshen, M., H.A. Amery and J. Starr. 1995. Annotated Bibliography on Water in the Middle East. Toronto: Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, xvii,129 p. ; 28 cm.; ISBN: 0772708177