Bernard Haykel (born 1968) [1] is professor of Near Eastern Studies and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University. [2] [3] He has been described as "the foremost secular authority on the Islamic State’s ideology" by journalist Graeme C.A. Wood. [4]
Haykel, of "partially" Lebanese ancestry, grew up in Lebanon and in the United States. [4] He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Yemen in 1992–1993. He obtained a bachelor's degree in International Politics at Georgetown University, MA, M Phil and, in 1998, Ph.D. in Islamic and Middle-Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford. After working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University in Islamic Studies, he joined New York University in 1998 as associate professor before taking up his post at Princeton. [3] He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010. [5] He is a member of the board of directors of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. [6]
In addition to English, Haykel is fluent in Arabic and French and has taught advanced level Arabic at Georgetown, Oxford and Princeton. [7]
Bernard Haykel (born 1968) [1] is professor of Near Eastern Studies and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University. [2] [3] He has been described as "the foremost secular authority on the Islamic State’s ideology" by journalist Graeme C.A. Wood. [4]
Haykel, of "partially" Lebanese ancestry, grew up in Lebanon and in the United States. [4] He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Yemen in 1992–1993. He obtained a bachelor's degree in International Politics at Georgetown University, MA, M Phil and, in 1998, Ph.D. in Islamic and Middle-Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford. After working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University in Islamic Studies, he joined New York University in 1998 as associate professor before taking up his post at Princeton. [3] He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010. [5] He is a member of the board of directors of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. [6]
In addition to English, Haykel is fluent in Arabic and French and has taught advanced level Arabic at Georgetown, Oxford and Princeton. [7]