Madawi al-Rasheed

Madawi al-Rasheed (Arabic: مضاوي الرشيد‎; born (1962-10-00)October 1962) is a Saudi Arabian professor of social anthropology. Al-Rasheed has held a position at the department of Theology and Religious Studies in King's College London and as aVisiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She gives occasional lectures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. She is the granddaughter of Mohammed bin Talal al-Rasheed, the last prince of Emirate of Ha'il. She has written several books and articles in academic journals on the Arabian Peninsula, Arab migration, globalisation, gender and religious transnationalism. As of 2016, she is a Visiting Research Professor at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore. She is active on Twitter.

Al-Rasheed was born in Paris, to a Saudi father and a Lebanese mother. Her father descendsfrom the Rashidi dynasty. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Saudi Arabia, where al-Rasheed grew up.

In 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew, Faisal bin Musaid. Bin Musaid's mother was a sister of al‐Rasheed's father, and the Saudi government accused the Rashidifamily of being behind the assassination. Further investigation found this to be untrue, but in 1975 al-Rasheed's family moved to Lebanon, where al‐Rasheed finished her Baccalaureate in 1981. She then started her studies in anthropology and sociology at the American University of Beirut.

In 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon. Al-Rasheedwent into exile a second time, to the UK, first to Salford University, then to Cambridge University, where she obtained her PhD with Ernest Gellner as her supervisor.

In 2005, after an appearance on Aljazeera TV criticizing the Saudi government, Mohammad bin Salman, at the time governor of Riyadh province, telephoned her father, claiming that her Saudi citizenship was withdrawn as punishment for her television appearance.

Books

• 2018 Al-Rasheed. M. Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia, Oxford University Press
• 2015 Al-Rasheed, M. Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia, Oxford University Press
• 2013 Al-Rasheed, M. A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• 2010 Al-Rasheed, M. A History of Saudi Arabia, Second Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• 2007 Al-Rasheed, M.Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• 2005 Al-Rasheed, M. Mazaq Al-islah fi al-Saudiyyah fi al-Qarn al-Wahid wa al-Ishrin, London: al-Saqi
• 2002 Al-Rasheed, M. A History of Saudi Arabia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Also in Arabic, Spanish and Polish.
• 1998 Al-Rasheed, M. Iraqi Assyrian Christians in London: the Construction of Ethnicity, New York: Edwin Mellen Press
• 1991 Al-Rasheed M. Politics in an Arabian Oasis: the Rashidi Tribal Dynasty, London: I.B. Tauris

Edited books

• 2012 Al-Rasheed, M. Kersten, C. and Shterin, M. (eds,)Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts, London: Hurst and Co.
• 2009 Al-Rasheed, M. & M. Shterin. (eds.)Dying for Faith: Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World, London: I.B. Tauris.
• 2008 Al-Rasheed, M. (ed.) Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Expansion, London: Hurst and Co.
• 2005 Al-Rasheed, M. (ed.) Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf,London: Routledge.
• 2004 Al-Rasheed, M. & R Vitalis (eds.) Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen,New York, Palgrave