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Jamila El-Gizuli @jamilaelgizuli

Jamila El-Gizuli is co-editor of Muftah’s Yemen and Gulf State pages. Jamila is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she focuses on the political economy of the Middle East. Having grown up in the Sultanate of Oman and traveling extensively in the region, Jamila has developed an interest in rentierism and the phenomenon’s social, political, and economic consequences. Her undergraduate thesis examined the interplay of religion and secularism in the prospects for civil revolution in Iran. Jamila holds a Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in International Studies from the City College of New York. She is fluent in Arabic and Russian.

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