Madawi al-Rasheed | |
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Born | October 1962 |
Madawi al-Rasheed (Arabic: مضاوي الرشيد; born October 1962) is a Saudi Arabian professor of social anthropology. She was at the department of Theology and Religious Studies in King's College London. She is currently Visiting 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.
In 2016 she is Visiting Research Professor at the Middle East Institute, at the National University of Singapore
She is active on Twitter.