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Courtney Freer is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, specializing in the domestic politics of Gulf states, with a particular focus on the roles played by Islamism and tribalism. Her book, 'Rentier Islamism: Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on Gulf Monarchies,' is based on her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford and was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. The book examines the socio-political roles of Muslim Brotherhood factions in Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. She has previously held positions at the Emory University as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and as an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre from 2015 to 2020. Freer has also worked as a Research Officer for the Kuwait Programme at the same centre and has gained experience at the Brookings Doha Center and the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council. She holds a BA in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from George Washington University.
Department of Economics