Bernard Haykel

Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Bernard Haykel Hudson Institute

At A Glance:

Bernard Haykel is a nonresident senior fellow with Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East.

Biography

Bernard Haykel is a nonresident senior fellow with Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East.

Dr. Haykel is a scholar of the Arabian Peninsula focusing on the politics, economics, and history of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Yemen. He is a professor of near eastern studies at Princeton University, where he teaches on energy, history, and politics. Dr. Haykel was previously director of the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East at Princeton and led the university’s project on oil, energy, and the Middle East.

He is the author of Revival and Reform in Islam and the editor of Saudi Arabia in Transition, both published by Cambridge University Press. His next book, The Realm: MBS and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia, will be published by Penguin Press.

Dr. Haykel is an authority on Islamist political movements and Islamic law and is the author of numerous articles on these and related topics. He received the Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College, University of Oxford and the Carnegie Corporation and Guggenheim Fellowships and Old Dominion Professorship at Princeton.

Dr. Haykel appears frequently in print and broadcast media, including The Wall Street Journal, PBS, NPR, The New York Times, Project Syndicate, Al Arabia, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, The Indian Express, BBC, and other outlets. He regularly advises business leaders in the United States, Europe, and the Gulf.

Dr. Haykel earned his doctorate in oriental studies from the University of Oxford.

Events
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August 2022
Past Event
Virtual Event | Saudi Arabia’s China Option
Featured Speakers:
Mohammed Alyahya
Bernard Haykel
Michael Doran
President Joe Biden  takes part in a working session with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Al Salam Royal Palace in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on July 15, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
19
August 2022
Past Event
Virtual Event | Saudi Arabia’s China Option

Please join Hudson Institute for a discussion on how far Chinese-Saudi cooperation can go. Panelists will consider whether Saudi Arabia truly has a Ch

President Joe Biden  takes part in a working session with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Al Salam Royal Palace in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on July 15, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Mohammed Alyahya
Bernard Haykel
Michael Doran