Claire Beaugrand

CNRS research fellow, IRISSO, Paris Dauphine; she teaches the Sociology of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on political and social dynamics in the Gulf countries. She is the author of Stateless in the Gulf: Migration, Nationality and Society in Kuwait (IB Tauris 2018).

Interview Big Brother. The Weapons of Mass Influence of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates Marc Owen Jones, Claire Beaugrand · June 2022 In Digital Authoritarianism in the Midde East, researcher Marc Owen Jones deciphers the new digital tools that support the Saudi and UAE regimes’ drift from authoritarianism to dictatorship. These textbook cases illustrate formidable strategies for controlling information and monitoring (...)