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Madawi Al-Rasheed<\/strong>\"Madawi
Professor of Anthropology of Religion<\/p>\n

The talk analyses how Islamists in Saudi Arabia responded to the Arab uprisings and developed new discourses on civil and political rights against the background of both Salafi resistance and regime repression. Activists are pejoratively labelled as \u2019bearded liberals\u2019 to discredit their project to move the Saudi state to more open and representative government.<\/p>\n

Moderation
Gudrun Harrer; Senior Editor, Der Standard<\/p>\n

Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previously, she was Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She also taught at Goldsmith College (University of London) and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Her research interests include the anthropology of Muslim societies; religion, politics and state in Saudi Arabia; Islamist movements, civil society and mobilisation; gender, religion and politics; transnational connections and the Arab Gulf; and human development.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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