Selected Publications

• "Bahrain’s Unfinished Revolution Holds Lessons for the West," The Financial Times, 13 February 2012.
• "Kuwait’s Constitutional Showdown," Foreign Policy, 17 November 2011 (Also in POMEPS Briefings VII: Arab Uprisings: Election Season, pp. 56-58, November 28, 2011).
• "Bahrain’s Deceptive National Dialogue," CNN, Global Public Square, 1 July, 2011.
• "Kuwait’s Impatient Youth Movement," Foreign Policy, 29 June, 2011.
• "Bahrain's Shia Question," Foreign Affairs, 2 March 2011.
• "Reform or the Flood in the Gulf," Foreign Policy, 20 February 2011 (Also in POMEPS Briefings V: Arab Uprisings: The Saudi Counter-Revolution.”, pp. 9-11, August 9, 2011).
• “Why the Bahrain Elections Matter?” Arab Uprisings: Bahrain’s Turn, POMEPS Briefings II, pp. 10-12, February 18, 2011.
• "The Gulf Comes Down to Earth," with Fareed Mohamedi, Middle East Report, No. 252 (Fall 2009).
• "A Tale of Two Kuwaits," Middle East Report, No. 252 (Fall 2009).
• "Sovereign Dilemmas: Sovereign Wealth Funds in Saudi Arabia," Geopoliltics, Volume 14, Number 2, April 2009, pp. 345-359.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

• Advisory Board, CET Language and Cultural Immersion Program, Aleppo, Syria.
• Advisory Board, Islam in Focus Dialogues, Social Science Research Center (SSRC).
• Research Grant, Middle-East Mediterranean Program, Sciences Po, Paris, France, 2010-2011.
• American University Faculty Research Support Award, 2008-2011.
• Qatar Post Doctoral Fellowship, Georgetown Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 2004-2005.
• Social Science Research Council NMERTA Grant, 2000-2001.
• Fulbright-IIE Fellowship, 1999-2000.
• Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship, Egypt, 1991-92.  

Professional Presentations

SELECTED INVITED TALKS: 

• "Whither the Arab State?", The Rahmania Annual Seminar co sponsored by the Transregional Institute, Princeton University, Al-Ghat, Saudi Arabia. 11-13 January 2012.
• “Gerrymandering Citizenship: Political Participation in the Arab Gulf States", New Perspectives on Citizenship in the Gulf, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2011 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 1-4 December 2011.
• "Fostering reform among U.S. allies”, The Arab World in Transition, The Brookings Institution, 8 June 2011.
• “Governance, Human Rights and American Interests in Bahrain”, Middle East Policy Council, 31 March 2011.
•   “Eyes on Bahrain”, Gulf Roundtable, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 8 March 2011.
• “The Growing Middle Class in the Arab Gulf,” Transnational Currents in the Gulf:  People, Money, Ideas; Boston University, March 2010.
• “Insecurity in the Gulf:  Economic and Social Perspectives,” George Washington University, November 2010.
• "Perspectives in the Social Science of Islamic Finance”, L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, May 2010.
• “The Dubai Debt Crisis:  Bankruptcy or Bluff?,” Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, December 2009.
• “Gulf Culture Wars:  Liberals, Islamists, and the Urban-Bedouin Divide,” The Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; Princeton University, September 2009.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS:

• "Gerrymandering Citizenship: Political Participation in the Arab Gulf States", New Perspectives on Citizenship in the Gulf, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting 2011, Washington D.C., 1-4 December 2011.
• “Political Economies?:  Islamic Finance and Islamist Politics in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait,” Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge University, UK, July 2010.
•   "Culture and Capital:  The Strategic Construction of Islamic Financial Institutions in the Gulf," International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2010.
• “The End of the Boom:  The Global Financial Crisis and the Arab Gulf,” Six University Consortium Conference, University of Toronto, October 2009.
•   “Political Reform in the Arabian Peninsula:  The Perils of Partial Openings,” American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, September 2008.
• “Islamic Finance and the Renewal of Awqaf,” The Eighth Annual Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, May 2008.
• Global Finance from Below, panel organized for American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2004.

Work In Progress

• "From Petrodollars to Islamic Dollars:  Islamic Finance in the Arab Gulf,"  book manuscript.
• "Gerrymandering Citizenship:  Naturalization and Voting Rights in the Arab Gulf," upcoming journal article.
• "Municipal Councils in the Gulf:  Stepping Stones to Democracy?," research paper for the Sciences Po Kuwait Program (under review).