Madawi al-Rasheed
Madawi al-Rasheed | |
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Born | October 1962 (age 61) Paris, France |
Nationality | British |
Political party | National Assembly Party[1] |
Madawi al-Rasheed,
Background
Al-Rasheed was born in Paris to a Saudi father and a Lebanese mother. Her father descends from the Rashidi dynasty. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Saudi Arabia, where al-Rasheed grew up.[4]
In 1975, King
In 1982,
In 2005, after an appearance on Al Jazeera TV criticizing the Saudi government, Salman of Saudi Arabia, at the time the governor of Riyadh province, who later became king of Saudi Arabia, telephoned al-Rasheed's father, claiming that her Saudi citizenship was withdrawn as punishment for her television appearance.[4]
Al-Rasheed was one of the targets in the so-called Pegasus spyware scandal, but the attack on her device was apparently unsuccessful.[5]
Recognition
Al-Rasheed was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013.[6]
Selected publications
Books
- 1991 Al-Rasheed M. Politics in an Arabian Oasis: the Rashidi Tribal Dynasty, London: I.B. Tauris
- 1998 Al-Rasheed, M. Iraqi Assyrian Christians in London: the Construction of Ethnicity, New York: Edwin Mellen Press
- 2002 Al-Rasheed, M. A History of Saudi Arabia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Also in Arabic, Spanish and Polish.
- 2005 Al-Rasheed, M. Mazaq Al-islah fi al-Saudiyyah fi al-Qarn al-Wahid wa al-Ishrin, London: al-Saqi
- 2007 Al-Rasheed, M. Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- 2010 Al-Rasheed, M. A History of Saudi Arabia, Second Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- 2013 Al-Rasheed, M. A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- 2015 Al-Rasheed, M. Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia, Oxford University Press
- 2018 Al-Rasheed. M. Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia, Oxford University Press
- 2020 Al-Rasheed. M. The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia, Hurst Publishers
Edited books
- 2004 Al-Rasheed, M. & R Vitalis (eds.) Counter-Narratives: History, Contemporary Society and Politics in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, New York, Palgrave
- 2005 Al-Rasheed, M. (ed.) Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf, London: Routledge.
- 2008 Al-Rasheed, M. (ed.) Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Expansion, London: Hurst and Co.
- 2009 Al-Rasheed, M. & M. Shterin. (eds.) Dying for Faith: Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World, London: I.B. Tauris.
- 2012 Al-Rasheed, M. Kersten, C. and Shterin, M. (eds,) Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts, London: Hurst and Co.
References
- ^ El Yaakoubi, Aziz (23 September 2020), Maclean, William (ed.), "Saudi dissidents form pro-democracy political group", Reuters
- al-Rasheed, Madawi (10 September 2012). موقع الدكتورة مضاوي الرشيد (in Arabic). Archivedfrom the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ a b c d De‐exoticizing Saudi Arabia with Madawi Al‐Rasheed, 3 December 2019, Maha Abdelrahman, Archive
- ^ Pegasus Project: Why I was targeted by Israeli spyware, Madawi al-Rasheed], 20 July 2021, Middle East Eye
- ^ "100 Women: Who took part?". BBC News. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
External links
- Madawi al-Rasheed on Twitter
- King's College London staff website
- Interview with PBS's Frontline, 2005