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Abdel Razzaq Takriti is a historian of anticolonialism, revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state formation in the modern Arab world. He is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (Oxford University Press, 2013; paperback edition, 2016). The book was a finalist for the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize for best debut book in non-British history, and received honorable mention from University of Cambridge’s British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for the best scholarly work on the Middle East. It was translated to Arabic as Dhufar: Thawrat al-Riyah al-Mawsimiyya (Jadawel, 2019). Professor Takriti is also the co-author (with Karma Nabulsi) of the digital humanities project The Palestinian Revolution (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2016). He has published extensively in a range of edited volumes and major scholarly journals including The American Historical Review and Radical History Review. In 2022, his research was the subject of an episode of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Al-Muqabala.