Dr. Mazhar Al-Zo’by

GRM 2012 Workshop: Society-State Relations in the Arab Gulf Region: Religion, Intellectuals and “New Media”

Assistant Professor - Department of International Affairs, Qatar University

Dr. Mazhar A. Al-Zo’by is an Assistant Professor of development and politics in the Department of International Affairs at Qatar University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies and his Ph.D. in Comparative Studies with focus on the Arab Middle East all from the University of Minnesota. His interests both in research and teaching focus principally on development, globalization, and social change: an area where economics, society and culture encounter historical transformation. While his work is comparative in nature, his current area of focus is the Arab world in general and the Arabian Gulf in particular. Among the critical issues on which his teaching and writing have concentrated are the role of natural resources in the production of globalization and social change; the role of nation-states in the world system; and the political economy of culture.