Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard’s Center of Middle Eastern Studies • Nation-Building • Technology • Arabian Peninsula • @doaiji.bsky.social • بريدةhttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3mjpfb2nwpc2y“This means a truly astonishing 1 in 5 citizens could lose their nationality.” For 2 years, Kuwait has launched a campaign to strip people of their citizenship. We unpack this unprecedented campaign, placing it in context and explaining what is driving it. https://newlinesmag.com/essays/kuwait-is-stripping-its-people-of-citizenship-at-an-unprecedented-rate/17 Apr 2026 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpfb2nwpc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3me7muvdylc2hHappy to share my new article on Saudi Arabia’s regional policy. Setting aside the misplaced talk of a “return to Islamism,” I situate Saudi strategy historically and show how Riyadh’s “zero-conflict” turn is being undermined by ongoing Emirati and Israeli interventionism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Feb 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7muvdylc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3lrbqh75uc22pHappy to share that my chapter, The Arabian Peninsula Wars (1919–1934), has been published. The edited volume, A Violent Peace, features chapters that move beyond nationalistic narratives and challenge the widely held view that the interwar period was one of global peace.10 Jun 2025 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrbqh75uc22phttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3lpahu4xqu22n“Sultan Alamer, a Saudi academic, joked that Mr. Trump’s remarks sounded like they came from Frantz Fanon, a 20th century Marxist thinker who wrote about the dynamics of colonial oppression.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/world/middleeast/trump-middle-east-nation-building.html15 May 2025 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpahu4xqu22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3lkqlvf7x7k2bInteresting analysis on Gulf, Trump, and Gaza [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2025 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqlvf7x7k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3lkj4ch4nqc2k“Typically, the framing of such announcements would be around security rather than human rights,” said Sultan Alamer, a senior resident fellow at the Washington-based New Lines Institute. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Mar 2025 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkj4ch4nqc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3lkdvcbifrk2d“The Saudi Arabia that Trump currently deals with is significantly different from the Saudi Arabia he knew in his first administration.” Read my new analysis on the impact of Trump’s Middle East policy on Saudi Arabia. https://newlinesinstitute.org/strategic-competition/trumps-middle-east-policy-and-its-impact-on-saudi-arabia/14 Mar 2025 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkdvcbifrk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/alamer.bsky.social/post/3lj6yqewidc2hThis fascinating essay by @doaiji.bsky.social reads like a detective story, full of plot twists, as it explores the life of a Saudi ex-Muslim refugee in Germany who carried out a horrendous attack on a Christmas market two months before the elections. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Feb 2025 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:6cpblkdvoshve42mjlaat2fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6yqewidc2h