Elisabeth Kendall

Elisabeth Kendall is senior research fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford. She previously served as director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World. Since 2012, she has acted as international adviser to a cross-tribal council in eastern Yemen that promotes grassroots activities to counter al-Qaeda and Islamic State. She is author and co-editor of Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action and Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage.