Dr. Kassim Alsraiha

Faculty Member

Dr. Kassim Alsraiha is a researcher and lecturer who holds a doctorate from the department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Cambridge. Kassim’s research is located at the interface between Islamic studies, contemporary intellectual history and politics of the Middle East. His work engages contemporary issues of citizenship, democratization and reformism in the Arab world, with a particular focus on the Gulf States. He is also interested in the legal history and Arab minority in the Negev. Kassim has published widely on the topics of religion and state, minorities, citizenship, and leadership. He is one of the founders of AHD – The Association for Academic Arabs for the Development of Arab Society in the Negev, and of the AHD High School Science in Arab-Bedouin society in the Negev.