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Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Australian National University
Canberra
ACT
0200
Australia
ABOUT
Jessie Moritz received her PhD in 2017 from the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University, where she specialised on Gulf development. She is an advanced Arabic speaker and has travelled extensively in the region. In 2013 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and from 2013-2014 she joined the Gulf Studies Program at Qatar University as a Graduate Fellow. She has conducted interviews with over 135 citizens of Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, including members of royal families, ministers, elected and appointed representatives, development experts, entrepreneurs, and prominent leaders in civil society. Her current research focuses on business dynamics and economic development in the GCC.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Arab States
Specialties
Rentier State Theory
State-Society Relations
Political Economy Of The Arab Gulf
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2017
| Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
| Australian National University
BA
| 2011
| School of Politics and International Relations
| Australian National University
Abstracts
Nationalism, Loyalty and Dissent: A Comparative Study of Reformist Movements in Bahrain and Oman Since 2011
Women in Protest: Bahraini and Omani Women in the Arab Spring
A Transnational Opposition: Bahraini Human Rights Networks in the International Sphere
Loyalist Roots, Reformist Attitude: The Al-Fateh Youth Coalition in Bahrain
Migrant Labour in Extreme Rentier States: Balancing economic imperatives, domestic demography, and international pressure
The Transnational Dimensions of Civil Society in Gulf Rentier States
Repression and Pathways of Resistance in the Arabian Peninsula
