Karim El Taki is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research studies the ideology of sovereignty—or sovereigntism—in contemporary Egypt and Qatar. Prior to joining the OIB, Karim was a Visiting Doctoral Student at Georgetown University Qatar and a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University. Karim holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and Middle Eastern Studies and a research master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris.