This person is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
Mai Yamani was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Yamani was a research fellow in the Middle East Programme at Chatham House from 1997 to 2007, the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London from 1992 to 2002, and from 1990 to 1991, at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women in Oxford.
From 1990 to 2002, she held the position of academic adviser at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and was a lecturer in anthropology and sociology at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, from 1981 to 1984.
Selected Publications:
Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity (London: IB Tauris, 2004. Also published in Arabic (London: Al Saqi, 2005); Changed Identities: The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia (London: RIIA, 2000. Published in Arabic (Beirut: Dar Al Raiys, 2001); The Rule of Law and Human Rights in the Middle East and the Islamic World (co-ed) (London: IB Tauris, 2001); “The Latent Arab Democratic Revolution,” The Middle East and North Africa (London: Routledge, 2007); “The Limits of Political Reform in Saudi Arabia,” Democratisation and the Middle East, Birgitte Rahbek (ed) (Aarhus University Press, 2005).
The violent clashes between Shia pilgrims and the Saudi religious police and security forces at the entrance to the Prophet Mohamed's Mosque in Medina may have serious repercussions for domestic security, if not for the regime itself.
Almost undetected, Russia is regaining much of the influence that it lost in the Middle East after the Soviet Union collapsed. Ever since Russia invaded Georgia in August, Arab satellite television and websites have been rife with talk about the region's role in an emerging "new cold war." Is the Arab world's cold war patron really back, and, if so, what will it mean for peace in the region?
