Md. Muddassir Quamar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, and holds a Ph.D. in Middle East studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has a wider research interest in politics and societies in the Arabian Gulf, political Islam, Middle East strategic affairs, and India’s relations with the Middle East. Among other books and monographs, Dr. Quamar is the author of Education System in Saudi Arabia: Of Change and Reforms (2021)and co-author of India’s Saudi Policy: Bridge to the Future (2019). More than a dozen of his research papers have appeared in international refereed journals besides he has contributed over 20 chapters for edited volumes. In 2014-15, he was Visiting Fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh. Dr. Quamar has been associated with the MEI@ND in various honorary capacities since its inception in 2010.