Madawi Al-Rasheed

Madawi Al-Rasheed is <a href=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/people/staff/academic/alrasheed/index.aspx>professor</a> of the anthropology of religion at Kings College, London. Her books includ

Saudi Arabia and Syria: logic of dictators

Saudi Arabia's support for the armed opposition in Syria reflects the way that the Arab spring is now hostage to regional rivalry, says Madawi Al-Rasheed.

By Madawi Al-Rasheed

/ 20 Mar 2012

The Saudi response to the ‘Arab spring’: containment and co-option

Saudi Arabia’s response to the ‘Arab spring’ has been an attempt to co-opt movements for change in a bid to maintain the status quo. Madawi Al-Rasheed talks to Deniz Kandiyoti about the contradictions of a ruling elite that promotes a conservative Islam, that threatens women’s existing rights abro

By Madawi Al-Rasheed

/ 10 Jan 2012

9/11: the memory of violence

The atrocity of 11 September 2001 entrenched an imaginary polarisation between “the west and the rest” - and buried a deeper reality that is only now emerging to light, says Madawi al-Rasheed.

By Madawi Al-Rasheed

/ 7 Sep 2011