Madawi Al-Rasheed

Madawi Al-Rasheed is Professor of Social Anthropology at King’s College, London. Her research focuses on history, society, religion, and politics in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, Middle Eastern Christian minorities, Arab migration, national and global Islamist movements, transnational Gulf connections and state and gender relations in Saudi Arabia. She is a regular commentator on political affairs. Her publications include Politics in an Arabian Oasis (I. B. Tauris, 1991); A History of Saudi Arabia (second edition, Cambridge, 2010); Counter Narratives: History, Contemporary Society and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen (Palgrave, 2004); Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf (Routledge, 2005); Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation (Cambridge, 2007); Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Frontiers (Hurst, 2008); Dying for Faith: Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World (I. B. Tauris, 2009); and Demystifying the Caliphate (Hurst, 2012). Her short articles can be found here and here. Her most recent book, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. She can be followed on Twitter at @MadawiDr.