Pascal Menoret
Renee and Lester Crown Chair in Modern Middle East
Anthropology, South Asian Studies
Brandeis University
United States of America
Biography
Pascal Menoret is the author of Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt (Cambridge University Press 2014), of Arabia, from the Incense Road to the Oil Era (Gallimard 2010, in French) and of The Saudi Enigma: A History (Zed Books 2005). An ethnographer and historian, he conducted four years of fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and has lived in Yemen, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Harvard University. He previously taught Middle East Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi and philosophy in three French high schools.
Research Interest
Urban Politics, Urban Planning, Ethnography, Arabian Peninsula, Infrastructure
Publications
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Menoret P. The Suburbanization of Islamic Activism in Saudi Arabia. City & Society. 2017 Apr 1;29(1):162-86.
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Menoret PS. After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies by Christopher M. Davidson. The Middle East Journal. 2014;68(1):162-3.
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Menoret P. Joyriding in Riyadh: oil, urbanism, and road revolt. Cambridge University Press; 2014 Apr 21.
