Lina Khatib (born 1977)[2] is Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at SOAS University of London, where she is MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and Professor of Practice in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
[3][4] Khatib graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology and Anthropology from the American University of Beirut.
She went on to pursue a Master of Arts (MA) in Mass Communication and a PhD in Social Studies at the University of Leicester.
She served as director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, where she is now an Associate Fellow, from 2016 to 2023.
Her music projects include co-founding and co-leading the World Metal Congress.