Toby Matthiesen

Toby Matthiesen was a Visiting Fellow at the Abbasi Program for the Spring of 2022. While at Stanford, Dr Matthiesen worked on the Baath Party of Iraq archives at the Hoover Institution for a project on Sunni-Shii Relations in the Middle East. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 888063. 

Dr Matthiesen was a Marie Curie Global Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University and Stanford University and is the author of Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t (Stanford University Press, 2013), and The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is also a frequent commentator in the media and has held fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, and the LSE. 

 Toby's website: www.tobymatthiesen.com

On Twitter: @tobymatthiesen