Tariq Tell is a political economist currently teaching at the Centre for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. He has previously taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of Manchester (UK). He has also held research posts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and in Amman at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur le Moyen Orient Contemporain (CERMOC) and the Royal Scientific Society. His current research interests include the comparative history and politics of Arab monarchies and the relationship between imperialism, food security, and popular protest in the Middle East.

• State and settlement strategies in southern Transjordan across the Islamic centuries, Jeremy Johns; bringing the state back - the limits of Ottoman rule in Transjordan, 1850-1918, Eugene Rogan; village land and individual title - Musha' and Ottoman land registration in the 'Ajlun district, Martha Munday; British land policy, Michael Fischbach; the state in the steppe - policy towards the Transjordanian Bedouin, 1923-1939, Riccardo Bocco and Tariq Tell; infrastructural development in Transjordan under British mandate, Vartan Amadouni; the Circassians in Transjordan, 1878-1950, Setency Shami; the history of the merchant class in Transjordan, Abla Amawi; the founding of the Muslim brothers in Jordan, 1945-1951, Marion Boulby.