Featured academic work.
For the full CV, including commentaries, invited talks, conference and other colloquia participation, please reach out to me.
Refereed Journal Articles
Path Dependence and Critical Junctures: Regime Resilience in Kuwait and Oman. Middle East Critique. Under review.
Working papers
Regional Realignment in the Gulf: The GCC-Iran Rapprochement. MEI Insight 316, March 2025. [PDF]
The Afghanistan Episode: A “Road to Damascus” Moment in US-Gulf Relations? MEI Insight 277, April 2022. [PDF]
The Post-Pandemic Era in the Gulf: Rethinking Migration and Spatial Policies. King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) Special Report, November 2020. [PDF]
Kuwait’s Diwaniyyas: Dislocation and Dissent in an Urban Gulf Society. Durham University Al-Sabah Publication Series, no. 15 (2015): 1-26. [PDF]
Book chapters
From Grassroots to Public Diplomacy: Diwaniyya as an Alternative Sociopolitical Institution. In Mahjoob Zweiri & Sinem Cengiz (eds.) The Making of Contemporary Kuwait: Identity, Politics, and its Survival Strategy. London: Routledge, 2024. [LINK]
Dissecting the Spatial Relevance of the Diwaniyya in Kuwait: An Enquiry into its ‘Publicness’. In Suzi Mirgani (ed.) Informal Politics of the Middle East. London: Hurst / Oxford University Press, 2021.
Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait. In Mehran Kamrava (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics. London: Routledge, 2020. [PDF]
Book Reviews
Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State by Rivka Azoulay. In Bustan: The Middle East Book Review 15, no. 2 (2024): 207-209. [DOI] [PDF]
Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran by Mehran Kamrava. In British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (22 April 2024). [DOI]
Kuwait Transformed by Farah al-Nakib. In British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 45, no. 1 (2017): 111-112. [DOI] [PDF]
Being Young, Male and Saudi by Mark Thompson. In Journal of Arabian Studies 10, no. 2 (2021): 323-324. [DOI] [PDF]
Conference papers
Global Britain’s Diplomacy in the Gulf: Security, Strategy and Agency. BRISMES Annual Conference, University of Kent (moved online), July 5, 2022. [PDF upon request]
Where’s the ‘Bedouin’ in ‘Tribe’? Tribal Identity in Urban Kuwaiti Society. 5th Annual International Conference of the Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. Online, November 15 – 19, 2020. [PDF upon request]
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