Elizabeth Monier is an Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Studies. She specialises in the modern politics and history of the Middle East and has a particular interest in the geopolitics of Egypt and the GCC states. She has previously held fellowships at Cambridge, the London School of Economics and Political Science, GIGA's Middle East Institute and the University of Warwick. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum, Cambridge Zero Advisory Board and the Centre for Geopolitics. She is the recipient of the Gulf Studies Journal Article Award for 2025.
Her current research includes a project on nations, state-building and the inclusion of minorities in Egypt and Iraq. She is also developing several different projects related to geopolitics, security and diplomacy and the Middle East in the global order. Her teaching interests are focused on connecting the study of the Middle East with developments in global history and politics.
Dr Monier teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the history and politics of the modern Middle East, in particular, the Arab world
Dr Monier is open to supervising research on the following topics:
The politics of the modern Arab World.
State-Society relations in Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain and Oman.
Nationalism and state-building.
Identity politics and sectarianism.
Minorities.
Regional power, geopolitics and Arab diplomacy.
- Identity politics
- Contemporary politics, history and society of Egypt and Arab Gulf States.
- Middle Eastern Christians.
- Regional power and the global order
- Arab diplomacy
- Human security
- Nationalism and state-building