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Attended Hymers College:
1982 - 1992
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Glen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Department of Politics and International Studies, at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow and a Director of Studies for Politics at Trinity College, where he also serves as the Director of Admissions and the Fellow for Ethnic Diversity. Trained in political theory and international law, he completed a doctorate on political and legal rhetoric in the Arab Middle East. His academic work focuses on Palestinian politics from 1967 to 1977, and the rhetorical relations between the West Bank resident population and the leadership of the Palestinian resistance movement in exile. He has co-written a monograph, Iraq in Fragments (Cornell University Press, 2006), on the fragmentation of the Iraqi polity following the invasion of 2003. He has also published on international humanitarian law, comparative human rights law, Iraq and nuclear weapons.
In the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war Rangwala wrote articles in newspapers and appeared on British TV, especially in the context of the "dodgy dossier" prepared by Tony Blair's government. Rangwala had discovered that this dossier was mostly plagiarised from a postgraduate student's thesis [1] and articles in Jane's Intelligence Review (with minor falsifications) [2] and traced back the people who had edited the dossier [3]. He submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs when it investigated the British government's information policy leading to the Iraq war.
He is a winner of the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for teaching, and he runs the RA Butler Essay Prize for school students interested in thinking, writing and arguing about politics.
His research interests are in the politics of the Middle East. Thematically, his work is on political argument and on the political economy of conflict. He chairs the Fieldwork & Research programme of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, of which he is a Trustee.