Dr Muhanad Seloom

Muhanad Seloom is an Assistant Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. He is an international security scholar whose work examines how states govern security and strategy under conditions of technological change. His research focuses on intelligence institutions, emerging technologies, and alliance management, with particular attention to small and middle states in the Middle East and comparative contexts.

Across his work, he analyses how technologies such as AI-enabled intelligence systems and surveillance infrastructures reshape decision-making, coordination, and institutional authority, rather than simply altering military capabilities. His scholarship combines historical and institutional analysis with contemporary debates in international security and science, technology, and international affairs. He is the author of Labelling Ethno-Political Groups as Terrorists: The Case of the PKK in Türkiye (Routledge).

He teaches international security and intelligence through policy-oriented and experiential methods, including simulations and structured analytical exercises that train students to think critically about security governance under uncertainty.