Alanoud al-Sharekh is the Director of Ibtkar Strategic Consultancy leading political, leadership and diversity training programs in Kuwait and the GCC region. She is chairperson of the Chaillot award winning Abolish 153 campaign to end honor killing legislations, and a cofounder of Mudhawis List, a platform to support women running for political office. Her research won the Arab Prize for best publication in a foreign journal in 2014, and includes books such as The Gulf Family, and Popular and Political Cultures of the Arabian Gulf States, examining the persistent importance of family and tribe in modern Gulf politics and society. She is currently a MENA Fellow at Chatham House and a Research Fellow at AGISW.

Courtney Freer is Assistant Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies (2018)..

Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The Historical Relationship between Badu and Monarchies
Chapter Three: Heritage Production and Branding of the Modern Badu in State Formation
Chapter Four: The Social Evolution of the Tribe
Chapter Five: Tribalisation of traditionally non-tribal actors and future impact of the resurgence of tribal rhetoric
Chapter Six: Electoral Tribalism
Chapter Seven: Tribal Intersections in the Digital Age
Chapter Eight: Conclusion