Bernard Haykel, PhD
Board Member, AGSI
Bernard Haykel is a member of the board of directors of the Arab Gulf States Institute. He is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He received his doctorate in 1998 in Oriental studies from the University of Oxford with an emphasis on Islam and history. Much of Haykel’s teaching and writing lies at the juncture of the intellectual, political, and social history of the Middle East with particular emphasis on the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. He has written extensively on Saudi Arabian and Yemeni culture and politics, Wahhabism, Salafism, and aspects of the Islamic doctrine and law.
Analysis
Better the Saudis We Know
Saudi Arabia is dismayed by President Obama’s Middle East policy. Its leaders feel that he does not play by the rules that have governed the Saudi-American alliance for decades: The United States provides security guarantees in return for the Persian Gulf states’ reliable stewardship of their oil reserves and support for American regional dominance.
Obama in Arabia
US President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week, to attend the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, comes at a time when relations between the two countries have rarely been worse. And yet, however negatively most Americans view Saudi Arabia, the country remains an important regional ally. Obama would be wise to mend...
Events
Book Talk – The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition, and Security in the Arab Gulf
On January 24, AGSIW hosted a discussion with Bernard Haykel and Joshua Rogers on this new book and the Houthi movement in Yemen.
Speakers
Nov 16, 2021
Roundtable With Bernard Haykel
On November 16, AGSIW hosted a discussion with Bernard Haykel on the state of U.S.-Saudi relations and the latest social, political, and economic developments underway in Saudi Arabia.
Speakers
Mar 3, 2017
A Rough Patch
Bernard Haykel is a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University and director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. He received his doctorate in Oriental Studies in 1998 from the University of Oxford. He has described his teaching and research as lying at the...
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