Lina Khatib

Lina Khatib is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, where she previously served as director. She is the former Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at SOAS University of London, where she was MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and Professor of Practice in the Department of Politics and International Studies. She has also been director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and co-founded and led the Program on Arab Reform and Development at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.