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Safa Al-Saeedi is an assistant professor of political science at Marist University. She came to Marist after a postdoctoral associateship at MIT and, before that, a predoctoral fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School.
 

Her research examines the relationship between media and social conflict under authoritarian rule. She combines statistical analysis with qualitative evidence, focusing empirically on the Middle East, especially the Arabian Peninsula. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Political Science Association (APSA), and the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), among others.
 

She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in political science, economics, and philosophy from Duke University.
 

She teaches courses on research methods, technology, religion, and the politics of the modern Middle East.