Yousif Abdelrahim

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Yousif Abdelrahim is an assistant professor of business administration specializing in management and cross-cultural communication at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University in Dhahran, where he also chairs Social Responsibility and Community Service and sits on the Faculty Interviewing Committee. His research explores cultural values, tribalism, education leadership, sustainability and management, with a focus on how fairness, inequality and social cohesion shape organizational behaviour. He developed the first validated individual-level tribalism scale, extending cross-cultural theory beyond Hofstede’s framework. A member of the American Educational Research Association, he has published on business ethics and sustainable education, wrote the book Tribalism and Corruption (2021), and contributed to Institutional Review Board and CSR frameworks supporting AACSB accreditation. He has served as a QS Reimagine Education judge and as the university’s Hult Prize mentor and representative, and he received the Leadership and Advocacy Award at the World Education Summit in Dubai in February 2026.