Madawi Al-Rasheed
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Dr Madawi Al-Rasheed is a Saudi-Arabian-born professor of Social Anthropology at the department of Theology and Religious Studies in King's College London since 1994. She gives occasional lectures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
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[edit] Academic history
Dr Madawi Al-Rasheed was Prize Research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She also taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. She was visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
[edit] Research
Her Main Specialisation is in Saudi Arabian history, society, politics and religion. In addition she conducted research on Iraqi Arab and Christian migrants in Britain. More recently she worked on historical and contemporary Persian Gulf transnational connections, with special focus on Saudi Arabia and Oman. Currently she is working on religio-political debate in Saudi Arabia after 11 September. She has written several books and articles in academic journals on the Arabian Peninsula, Arab migration, globalisation and religious transnationalism.
[edit] Publications
Selected books
Politics in an Arabian Oasis, 1991, London: I.B. Tauris, translated into Arabic by al-Saqi
Iraqi Assyrian Christians in London, 1998, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press
A History of Saudi Arabia, 2002, Cambridge: CUP, translated into Arabic by al-Saqi
Counter Narratives: History, Contemporary Society and Politics in Saudi Arabian and Yemen, 2004, NY: Palgrave
Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf, 2005, London: Routledge
Al-saudiyyah wa mazaq al-islah fi al-qam al-hadi wa al-ishrin,(Arabic: السعودية ومأزق الإصلاح في القرن الحادي والعشرين 2005), London: al-Saqi
