Abdullah Hamidaddin

ABDULLAH HAMIDADDIN is a researcher on Middle Eastern societies, politics and religion with a focus on Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He is currently Senior Research Fellow, director of the Yemen Program at King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He had previously chaired Imam Zaid bin Ali Cultural Foundation, an NGO concerned with the preservation of Yemen's manuscript heritage. His books include Tweeted Heresies: Saudi Islam in Transformation (2019), Harmonious Being (Al-Kaynuna al...See more

ABDULLAH HAMIDADDIN is a researcher on Middle Eastern societies, politics and religion with a focus on Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He is currently Senior Research Fellow, director of the Yemen Program at King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He had previously chaired Imam Zaid bin Ali Cultural Foundation, an NGO concerned with the preservation of Yemen's manuscript heritage. His books include Tweeted Heresies: Saudi Islam in Transformation (2019), Harmonious Being (Al-Kaynuna al-Mutanaghima) published in 2012 and Zaydism (Al-Zaydiyya) published in 2010. He obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology from King's College London. See less