The Public Decency Law and the Shaping of the Saudi Identity
The relaxation of social norms in Saudi Arabia has proved to be both emboldening and disorienting.
Eman Alhussein
Non-Resident Fellow, AGSIW; Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Eman Alhussein is a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. She is a visiting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She previously worked as a research fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her research focuses on Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region. Alhussein’s areas of interest include identity and nationalism, gender, cultural and societal change, and religious discourse and reforms.
Alhussein holds an MA in Gulf studies from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She is currently based in Oslo, Norway.
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