Lina Khatib

Lina Khatib is the Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at SOAS University of London, where she is MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and Professor of Practice in the Department of Politics and International Studies. She previously led the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, where she is now an Associate Fellow. She was also formerly director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and co-founding head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Her research focuses on the international relations of the Middle East, Islamist groups and security, political transitions and foreign policy, with special attention to the Syrian conflict.

Lina is a Principal Investigator and is also a researcher for the Iraq and the Levant case study on XCEPT.