Madawi Al-Rasheed is a Saudi-Arabian-born professor of social anthropology

Social anthropology

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 at the department of Theology and Religious Studies in King's College London

King's College London

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 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

September 11, 2001 attacks

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. 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.

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
  Saqi Books
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• Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Views from a New Generation, Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press
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  , 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

External links

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