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ABOUT
Toby Matthiesen is a Marie Curie Global Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University and at Stanford University, leading a project on Sunni-Shii Relations in the Middle East. He is the author of Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t (Stanford University Press, 2013), and The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2015. His forthcoming book, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism is published by Oxford University Press. He holds a PhD in Politics from SOAS, and has held fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, and the LSE.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Foreign Relations
Gulf Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Transnationalism
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Bahrain
Gulf
Iran
Kuwait
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Specialties
Islamic Movements
Identity Politics
Minorities And The State
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
German (native)
Persian (elementary)
French (fluent)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2011
| Politics and International Studies
| SOAS
MA
| 2007
| Near and Middle East Studies
| SOAS, University of London
BA
| 2006
| Oriental Studies
| University of Berne
Abstracts
Shiite Revolutionaries Turned Local Historians: Cultural Memories and Collective Identities in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia
Centre-Periphery Relations in Saudi Arabia: The Case of the Eastern Province
Sectarian Gulf: How the Gulf Monarchies Responded to the Arab Uprisings
Leftists in Arabia: Oil Workers, Activists and the Gulf Rentier States
Comparing State Sponsorship for Sunni and Shii Islamist movements
