Prof. Baqer Al-Najjar

GRM 2011 Workshop: Potential and Limits of Civil Society in the Gulf Region

Department of Social Sciences - University of Bahrain

Prof. Baqer Salman Al-Najjar is Professor of Sociology at University of Bahrain. He received his Ph.D. from Durham University, UK. In 2009, he received the Shaikh Zayed Book Award for his work on civil society in the Gulf. His other main publications are NGOs in the Arabian Gulf (1988); Productivity in Industrial Sector in Bahrain (1993); Sociology of the Arabian Gulf (1999); Women and Modernity in the Gulf (2000); Dream to Migrate to Wealth: Foreign Labour in the Gulf (2001); Society and Education in the Arabian Gulf (2003); Gender, Citizenship and Non-Governmental Organizations (2003); The Religious Movements in the GCC Countries (2007); Social Policies in Bahrain (2008); and The Strenuous Democracy in the Arabian Gulf (2008).