Professor 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. Before becoming Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute, she directed policy research programmes at some of the world’s leading policy institutes. She served as Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, where is now an Associate Fellow, and prior to that was Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Senior Associate at the Arab Reform Initiative. Prior to that, she co-founded and led the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Before moving to Stanford, she lectured at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work is firmly interdisciplinary, spanning the study and practice of international affairs, political transformations, and visual culture and communications.