Leon Goldsmith

Dr. Leon Goldsmith is Senior Lecturer in the Politics Programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He works on Middle Eastern and comparative politics, identity politics, youth politics, political participation, political culture, institutions and comparative political systems. His main geographic areas of research are Syria and the Levant, and Oman and the Arab Gulf states. Leon’s current theoretical interests explore the ideas of ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi.