Elisabeth Kendall is a British Arabist, academic and commentator, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, whose scholarship has ranged from Middle Eastern literatures to militant jihad.
[2] She attended Beaconsfield High School before reading Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford where she gained a first-class degree[3] and was awarded the Schacht Memorial Prize.
[4] From 2000 to 2010, she held positions at St Antony's College, Oxford then the University of Edinburgh, where she was appointed Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW).
[8] In 2022, Kendall was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford “in recognition of her distinguished academic career as a British Arabist".
[9] In 2023, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glasgow “in recognition of the major contribution made to Arabic Studies”.