Khalid Al-Dakhil

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Dr Khalid Al-Dakhil (Arabic: الدكتور خالد الدخيل) is a Saudi-Arabian liberal and an assistant professor of political sociology at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He has been a columnist for London's Al Hayat newspaper (Arabic: صحيفة الحياة) and is now a columnist for Abu Dhabi newspaper.(Arabic :صحيفة أبو ظبي ) He is widely published in Arab journals. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

During his four-months tenure at the Carnegie Endowment, his research and outreach focused on Saudi politics, history, and reform as well as the country's relations with the United States. His contribution augmented the Middle East Political Reform Initiative of Carnegie's Democracy and Rule of Law Project

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• "Saudi Writer Recasts Kingdom's History", The Washington Post, 4 February 2007.
• "The Rise of the Wahhabi Movement and the Saudi State", The Washington Post, 5 February 2007 - Interview
• Articles by Khalid Al-Dakhil at "Saudi Debate"
• "A Saudi Glasnost?", FrontPage Magazine, 7 November 2003.