Sultan Alamer is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Middle East Program. His research focuses on nationalism and state-formation, governance and technology, regional politics in the broader Middle East, with a special focus on the Arabian Peninsula countries, and contemporary Arab and Muslim political philosophy. He holds a PhD in political science from George Washington University. His dissertation focuses on national-building strategies and state-formation in Saudi Arabia. He holds an MA degree in philosophy and social policy from the Philosophy Department at George Washington University. Sultan’s publications include "Beyond Sectarianism and Ideology: Regionalism and Collective Political Action," in Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (Oxford University Press, 2018), "The Role of Global Consultant Companies in Decision-Making Processes in Gulf Countries," in Economic Reform in the Gulf Region Amid an Oil Crisis (Gulf Center for Development Policies, 2017), and “The Margin When It Overthrows the Center: A Study on the Political Aspects of Mohammed Abedal-Jabri” (Jadawel for Publishing and Translation, 2011). He is also the editor of On the History of Arab Nationalism: Critical Readings on the Margins of Time and Space (Beirut: Jossor for Translation and Publication, 2016). Sultan is a co-founder and a member of the executive committee of the Arab Political Science Network. He is a Bucerius Fellow at Zeit-Stiftung Ebling und Gerd Bucerius, and the Editor-in-Chief of criticism and essays Arabic digital platform A3wad Qash, and the Executive Producer of the Arabic Academic podcast Ghayn. He wrote for New Lines Magazine, the Arab Reform Initiative, the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, the Gulf Center for Development Policies, and Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum. He was a weekly syndicated op-ed writer for the Arab international newspapers Al-Hayat and Al-Arabi Al-Jadid, and the Saudi newspapers Okaz and Al-Bilad.