Annelle Sheline, Ph.D., is a nonresident fellow with the Baker Institute Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East. She is also a research fellow at the Quincy Institute and a non-resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC. She previously served as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State. Her academic research focuses on religious authority in the Middle East, specifically the intersection of religious and national identities in the Arab monarchies. In addition to academic writing, her public commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and The American Prospect. Sheline received her doctorate from George Washington University’s department of political science.

Contact at [email protected] or 202-279-0005.