Geneive Abdo (born 1960) is an American scholar and author of several books on the Middle East and the Muslim World.

Abdo was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, where she specializes in Iraq, Iran, and Shia- Sunni relations.

Abdo previously worked at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, a project created under former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to defuse tension between Western and Islamic societies.

[1] From 1998 to 2001, Abdo was the Iran correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian and a regular contributor to The Economist and the International Herald Tribune.

Answering Only to God seeks to explain the theological struggle in Iran among the Shiite clerics and how it has led to political stagnation.