People

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...

Don Babai (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) specializes in the political economy of the Gulf countries. He is currently working on a book on business-state relations in Saudi Arabia and is also finishing editing a festschrift, consisting of twelve...

Balıkçıoğlu is a textual scholar and an intellectual historian whose research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, theology, and Sufism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is particularly interested in the Ottoman synthesis of Graeco-Arabic...

Lenore G. Martin (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science at Emmanuel College in Boston. She is co-chair of the Middle East Seminar co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Weatherhead Center for...

Sara Roy (EdD, Harvard University) is an Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies specializing in the Palestinian economy, Palestinian Islamism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Roy is also co-chair of the Middle East Seminar, jointly...

Anas is an assistant professor, artist, architect, and urban planner specialist in the management of historic towns and world heritage sites. From an academic perspective, Anas holds several degrees in history, history of art, historic preservation and...

Laura Anne Thompson is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the study of Islam in North Africa and of religion more broadly in the Mediterranean region. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Boston University. She was previously a...