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Bernard Haykel is a nonresident senior fellow with »ªÌå»á’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East.

Dr. Haykel is a scholar of the Arabian Peninsula focusing on the politics, economics, and history of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Yemen. He is a professor of near eastern studies at Princeton University, where he teaches on energy, history, and politics. Dr. Haykel was previously director of the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East at Princeton and led the university’s project on oil, energy, and the Middle East.

He is the author of Revival and Reform in Islam and the editor of Saudi Arabia in Transition, both published by Cambridge University Press. His next book, The Realm: MBS and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia, will be published by Penguin Press.

Dr. Haykel is an authority on Islamist political movements and Islamic law and is the author of numerous articles on these and related topics. He received the Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College, University of Oxford and the Carnegie Corporation and Guggenheim Fellowships and Old Dominion Professorship at Princeton.

Dr. Haykel appears frequently in print and broadcast media, including The Wall Street Journal, PBS, NPR, The New York Times, Project Syndicate, Al Arabia, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, The Indian Express, BBC, and other outlets. He regularly advises business leaders in the United States, Europe, and the Gulf.

Dr. Haykel earned his doctorate in oriental studies from the University of Oxford.