Recent Publications

• Iraq Ten Years On, editor and contributor, Chatham House Programme Report, May 2013
• Kuwait: Consensus on the Role of Parliament Remains Elusive, The Financial Times, April 2013
• Book review, After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies, Christopher M. Davidson, London: Hurst. 2012, in International Affairs, March 2013
• The Case of Kuwait — Debating Free Speech and Social Media in the Gulf, ISLAMiCommentary, February, 2013
• To What Extent is Twitter Changing Gulf Societies?, State of the Region, February 2013
• 'From Football to Military Might, How Qatar Wields Global Power', The Guardian, February 2013
• 'Looking Ahead to 2013: International', The Scotsman, December 2012
• 'Divine Right Won't Save the Arab Kings', The World Today, October/November 2012
• Kuwait's Parliament: An Experiment in Semi-democracy, Briefing Paper, August 2012
• 'Bahrain's still Stuck', Foreign Policy, August 2012
• New Socio-Political Actors: The Brotherhood and Business in Egypt, Op-Med, The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), July 2012
• 'Risk Grows of Strife Spilling into Lebanon', Scotland on Sunday, July 2012
• Bahrain: Beyond the Impasse, Programme Report, June 2012
• 'Islamists in Tune with West Over Economy', Financial Times, May 2012
• 'Syria's Election Charade could Trigger More Unrest', The Guardian, May 2012
• 'Bahrain's Formula One for Failure', in Arab Uprisings: Breaking Bahrain, POMEPS Briefing, April 2012
• 'Bread, Dignity and Social Justice': The Political Economy of Egypt's Transition, Briefing Paper, April 2012
• 'Bahrain's Formula One for Failure', Foreign Policy, April 2012
• 'Bahrain Grand Prix Tests Britain's Policy of Engagement', The Guardian, April 2012
• New Socio-Political Actors in North Africa: A Transatlantic Perspective, with Silvia Colombo and Paola Caridi, Mediterranean Paper Series 2012, German Marshall Fund, February 2012
• 'Arab Spring, Islam's Summer: The Next Fight in Egypt and Tunisia will be Among the Islamists', The World Today, February/March 2012
• 'Egypt: January 25 - To Protest or Party?', Expert Comment, January 2012
• Bahrain chapter in Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies, edited by Dr Christopher Davidson, Columbia University Press/Hurst, 2011
• 'Keeping it in the Family', Foreign Policy, November 2011
• 'Bahrain Report Presents Opportunity for Reform', Expert Comment, November 2011
• 'Bahrain: Unresolved Divisions', The Arab Spring: Implications for British Policy, Conservative Middle East Council, October 2011
• 'Saudi Succession in the Spotlight', Expert Comment, October 2011
• 'Libya Rattles the Region', Expert Comment, August 2011
• 'Middle East: Bread and Dignity', The World Today, August 2011
• Framing the Family Law: A Case Study of Bahrain's Identity Politics, Journal of Arabian Studies, 1:1, 53-68, 2011
• 'The Maybe Greater GCC', Foreign Policy, May 2011
• 'The Gulf Region: Anger Management', The World Today, April 2011
• 'Crackdown in Bahrain', Expert Comment, March 2011
• Bahrain's Re-Reform Movement, Foreign Affairs, February 2011
• Briefing: The Gulf States, The Economist, February 2011
• The GCC in 2020, series of four reports: The Gulf and the globe; The Gulf and its people; Resources for the future; Broadening the economy, The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2009-2010
• Dubai's finances: Debt forgetfulness, The Economist, December 2010