Madawi Al-Rasheed

Madawi Al-Rasheed (born 1962^[1]) 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.

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.

She has recently officially joined twitter.^[2]

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, second edition: 2010 ISBN 978-0-521-78128-4 (harback) and ISBN 978-0-521-74754-7 (paperback)
• 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
• Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Views from a New Generation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007 ISBN 978-0-521-85366-6
• Kingdom without Borders . Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious and Media Frontiers, Columbia/Hurst, New York 2009 ISBN 978-0-231-70068-9

References

External links

• Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed personal website
• Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed at King's College London
• Interview with PBS's Frontline, 2005

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