Mehran Kamrava dirige il Center for International and Regional Studies della  Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Tra i suoi lavori si segnalano: Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf (Cornell University Press, 2018); Inside the Arab State (Oxford University Press, 2018); The Impossibility of Palestine: History, Geography, and the Road Ahead (Yale University Press, 2016); Qatar: Small State, Big Politics (Cornell University Press, 2015); The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War, 3rded. (University of California Press, 2013); e Iran’s Intellectual Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008).