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Abdullah Baabood

Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University

Dr Abdullah Baabood is an academic from Oman who is currently holding the chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo and non-resident scholar at Carnegie Middle East Center. He has previously held the positions of the director of the Gulf Research Center at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University. Dr Baabood’s teaching and research interests focuses on international relations and international political economy of the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Updated: April 12, 2023