Joshua Teitelbaum

About

Joshua Teitelbaum is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. 

Teitelbaum is a leading historian and expert on the modern Middle East. He teaches modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. Prof. Teitelbaum has a long association with Stanford University and the Hoover Institution. For many years he was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Political Science, visiting scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and a contributor to the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on the Middle East and the Islamic World at Hoover. He has held visiting positions at Cornell University, the University of Washington, and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prof. Teitelbaum serves on the editorial board of Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape (Hoover Institution Press, 2010) and has written for Cambridge University’s Historical Journal. Prof. Teitelbaum’s forthcoming book is The Saudi Arabian National Guard: Tribalism, the Royal Family, and Politics in Modern Saudi Arabia (Stanford University Press).