Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Bernard Haykel is a scholar of the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the politics, economics and history of the Gulf Cooperation Council states (GCC) and Yemen. He is professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University where he teaches courses on energy, history and politics. He is the author of Revival and Reform in Islam and editor of Saudi Arabia in Transition, both published by Cambridge University Press. His next book titled The Realm: MBS and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia will be published shortly by Penguin Press. Haykel has received several prominent awards, such as the Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, the Carnegie Corporation and Guggenheim fellowships and the Old Dominion Professorship at Princeton. In 2024 he was elected member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. Haykel appears frequently in print and broadcast media. These include interviews and articles in the Wall Street Journal, PBS, NPR, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Project Syndicate, Al Arabia, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, the Indian Express and the BBC among others. He earned his doctorate in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford.