Joshua Yaphe

Visiting Fellow

For fifteen years, Joshua Yaphe was the lead analyst for the Arabian Peninsula at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, drafting analytical products, briefing policymakers, hosting roundtables, and serving as an institutional memory on Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman and Yemen. He has been a frequent participant in Track Two forums on the Middle East and a guest speaker at numerous academic and think tank events in the United States, Europe and the Gulf.

He has a Ph.D. in History from American University in Washington, DC, and is the author of Saudi Arabia and Iraq as Friends and Enemies: Borders, Tribes and a History Shared, currently out in paperback through the University of Liverpool Press. In 2020, he was a Visiting Fellow at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and from 2022 to 2024 he served as a visiting faculty member at the National Intelligence University.

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