Areej bint Mohsen Al-Oufi

Specialist in Modern History

Areej bint Mohsen Al-Oufi is a researcher specialising in modern history, focusing on the Arabian Peninsula and the Kingdom in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the political and social transformations of that period. Her work rests on primary sources, archival documents, travel accounts and memoirs, collated against local oral narrative to build a documented picture of the era. She has a particular interest in women's history and their role in Saudi society, and in the narratives that conventional historical writing has passed over.