Ahmed Almansoori is a PhD candidate in the Department of International History at LSE. He holds a BSc in Economics and Public Policy from Duke University (with a minor in Russian), and an MSc in Emerging Economies and International Development from King’s College London.

Provisional Thesis Title: 

Between Two Worlds: Tracing the Arab Gulf States’ Entanglements in Uzbekistan (1986-2001)

Ahmed's research traces the interconnected histories of Uzbekistan and the Arab Gulf States during the turbulent perestroika period, the emergence of nationalism across Central Asia, the catastrophic collapse of the Soviet Union, and developments at the turn of the century. His PhD dissertation will be the first to integrate Arabic, Russian, and Uzbek sources to elucidate the nuanced political and socioeconomic interactions between the Middle East and the former-Soviet Central Asian Republics in contemporary times.

His work is supervised by Professor Vladislav Zubok, Head of the Cold War Studies programme.

In addition to his research, Ahmed is passionate about teaching and has actively volunteered to tutor refugee children since 2017. He currently serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the LSE, teaching at the undergraduate level.