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Research Theme for 2008-2009: “Youth Culture and Politics in the Arab and Muslim Worlds”Haykel Takes Over as New Director
| Bernard Haykel, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University has assumed directorship of the Transregional Institute. |
Haykel joins the Princeton faculty this fall as a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. He was formerly associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History in NYU's Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
Haykel received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. His primary research interests center on Islamic political movements and legal thought. He has published extensively on the Salafi movement in both its pre-modern and modern manifestations. In particular, his book entitled Revival and Reform in Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2003) explores this strand of Islamic legal and political thought. He is presently writing a book on the religious politics of Saudi Arabia since the early 1950s.
Haykel has also advised the British and US governments on Islamic affairs and has been involved in a number of key court cases relating to terrorism since 9/11.
2008-2009 Transregional Institute Fellows Named
The Institute has selected two scholars as postdoctoral research associates for 2008-2009, Roger Hardy and Pascal Ménoret.
Roger Hardy has been a Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst with the BBC World Service for more than twenty years. Educated at Oxford, he worked in book publishing and then edited a review journal (Gazelle) and a monthly magazine (The Middle East), before joining the BBC in 1985. His radio series have included The Making of the Middle East, Islam: Faith and Power, Israel among the Nations, Europe’s Angry Young Muslims and, most recently, Jihad and the Petrodollar. He is the author of Arabia after the Storm, a study of the impact of the Kuwait war on the Arabian monarchies (Chatham House, 1991), and has contributed articles and reviews to the Economist, International Affairs, the New Statesman, Index on Censorship, and Middle East International.
Pascal Ménoret earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris-La Sorbonne, where he wrote a dissertation entitled “Thugs and Zealots: The Politicization of Saudi Youth 1965-2007”. He is the author of The Saudi Enigma: A History (London: ZedBooks, 2005). Between 2005 and 2007, he has been a visiting researcher at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. His current research focuses on youth issues in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world. While at Princeton he will work on a book project entitled “Youth, Politics and Violence in Saudi Arabia”.