Gulf Research Meeting
Birol Baskan
GRM 2012 Workshop: Society-State Relations in the Arab Gulf Region: Religion, Intellectuals and “New Media”
Dr. Birol Baskan is Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received a B.A. in International Relations and in Economics from Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2006. Baskan taught at State University of New YorkFredonia in 2006-2007 and at Qatar University in 2007-2010. His research looks at the roles religion, religious institutions, and grassroots religious groups play in creating, maintaining, undermining, and destroying political order in the Middle East. Currently, he is working on several projects, one of which is a book project analyzing the role of religion in state and nation building in the Gulf. At SFS-Qatar, Baskan teaches courses on comparative politics, religion and politics, and methodology. He has published in Politics and Religion; HAWWA: the Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World; Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations; Insight Turkey; Akademik Ortadogu; Arab Studies Quarterly; Turkish Yearbook of International Politics and Comparative Political Studies.
