Looks like another (former) Kuwait MP has been referred to prosecution charged with challenging the authority of the Emir. Hamid al-Olayan will be seen in court June 6th.

Big news from #Kuwait: after close to six months of anticipation, the emir has just issued an Amiri Order nominating Shaikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad al-Mubarak to be Crown Prince (CP). A historic decision that is a first for several reasons. How so? And who is Kuwait’s CP? A 🧵

The Gulf monarchies have been moving to father-son successions. But Kuwait's new crown prince, Sabah al-Khaled, is the emir's second cousin (in the male line).

#officially it is out. 📚📚🎉🎉#New_Book. #kuwait. #contemporarygulfstate_series. Founder. Prof Mahjoob Zweiri (محجوب الزويري ). routledge.com/The-Making-of-…. Sinem Cengiz Dr. Ghanim Al Najjar (غانم النجار) Dr. Abdulrahman Al Ebrahim Dr. Meshari Hamad Al Ruwaih Dr. Hamad Al Bloshi (Hamad H Albloshi حمد البلوشي)

My new article's out in First Look (Open Access) in امير القلوب! 🎉🤓 In it I look at over a thousand Assyrian graves to conclude that the gap in wealth between rich and poor widened significantly as the empire grew. (1/4) cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excited that this edited volume is out and delighted to have written alongside such wonderful colleagues!

He was Kuwait’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in the 1990s

Many thanks to Holly Dagres and her Atlantic Council colleagues for publishing my latest IranSource piece, which is about the state of #Bahrain-#Iran relations. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransour… Kristian Ulrichsen Assal Rad Mehran Kamrava Dina Esfandiary Emily Milliken (Przyborowski) Dr. Cinzia Bianco Mehran Haghirian

It was a pleasure participating in this conference and in the research project on varieties of Shii Islamism

A new Washington Post editorial deploring the suspension of the Kuwaiti parliament, and criticizing the Biden administration for its truly inadequate response when asked about it: "we are aware..." wapo.st/3z8R4CG

This is the first editorial I’ve seen in a major Western newspaper calling attention to the dissolution of parliament in Kuwait and the Biden Administration’s (two sentence) response to it washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Thrilled to share that my paper: Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa, is published by British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Bahrain has joined Kuwait in challenging citizenship: - reviewing those granted since 2010 - reserved for those “who demonstrate loyalty, respect for laws, uphold social values” - hotline to report infractions

New Infograph Learn more about the four candidates of #Iran presidential elections: Saeed Jalili, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Masoud Pezeshkiyan, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi.

Proud that The Washington Post Editorial Board could be at the forefront on this. Still somewhat puzzling to me just how little attention Kuwait's dissolution of parliament has gotten. x.com/courtneyfreer/…

My report for Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) on the cost of politics in Kuwait is out - I really enjoyed working on this and thinking about cost of elections in rentier states costofpolitics.net/middle-east-an…

My new piece on sectarian dynamics in Bahrain is out with ISPI ispionline.it/en/publication…

APSA MENA CFA for early-career scholars who would like to participate in a 1-week workshop on identity politics in the MENA region, organized in partnership with the Center for the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies at Kuwait University. Details here: web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-conten…

Calling for paper abstracts for the upcoming Gulf Studies Symposium workshops co-hosted by Gulf Int'l Forum and GU CCAS in DC. See details below 👇🏼