Abdel Razzaq Takriti is the Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies and Inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History. He is currently Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University. 
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Email: atakriti@rice.edu

A scholar of anti-colonialism, revolution, state formation, and intellectual traditions in the Arab world, he is the author of “Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman” (Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback edition, 2016). The book was a finalist for the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize for best debut book in non-British history, was awarded Honourable Mention from the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize housed at the University of Cambridge, and appeared in a revised Arabic edition under the title “Dhufar: Thawrat al-Riyah al-Mawsimiyya” (Jadawel Books, 2019). Professor Takriti is also co-author (with Professor Karma Nabulsi) of the digital humanities project “The Palestinian Revolution” (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2016), for which they received the prestigious Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Undergraduate Education Award in 2019.

He holds a D.Phil. in History from St Antony’s College, Oxford and was formerly a Junior Research Fellow in Political History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His doctoral dissertation was awarded MESA’s Malcolm Kerr Award for best doctoral dissertation in the humanities and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best doctoral dissertation in the social sciences or the humanities.