Dr. Courtney Freer is an assistant professorial research fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Institution. She is the author of “Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf Monarchies” (Oxford University Press, 2018), the first English language book focused on the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf states.