The Expert is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics and International Relations of the Middle East.
The Expert is a forensic document examiner of Arabic language documents for document authentication reports.
The Expert is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics and International Relations with a focus and expertise on several themes:
- Inter-Communal/Sectarian relations (Sectarianism) in the Gulf and Wider Middle East
- State – State and State-Societal Relations
- Extensive experience and on the ground fieldwork with NGO’s and Civil Society in the Gulf.
- Islamist Movements, Militia Groups and Radicalisation
- Conflict and Peacebuilding
- Expressions and Identities of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
- Geopolitical Trends and Regional Security
- Mass Mobilisation and Protest Movements
- Diaspora Communities, Refugee and Asylum Cases
Human Rights, Modes of Governance & Institutions in the Middle East.
The Expert has produced over 400 reports pertaining to Country Expert, Document Authentication, Disputed Nationality, Dialect Analysis etc.) for UK, U.S and European law firms, having been nominated by Lawyer Monthly magazine for Expert Witness of the Year 2023 in the field of immigration. The Expert has also been commissioned as a country profile review editor for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime – a global monitoring NGO, focusing on devising and gauging their country profile reviews (as part of their Global Organized Crime Index) on issues pertaining to various criminal sectors in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Latest Academic Publication:
“Civic Space and Sectarianism in GCC States: Dynamics of ‘Informal’ Civil Society in Kuwait and Bahrain beyond State Institutions,” Fibiger, T and Hafidh, H in Studies of Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN).
“Transnational Securitization of Identity: Distinctions between Securitization and ‘Othering’ of Shias in Bahrain and Pakistan,” Global Discourse, Forthcoming (November 2019).
The Expert also provides English-Arabic and Arabic-English translation and interpreting services.