Dr. Manjari Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of International Studies, Amity 
University, Noida. Previously she served as an Associate Fellow at Centre for Land Warfare Studies. Dr. 
Singh holds a doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University in West Asian/Middle Eastern Studies on 
Sustainable Development in Jordan. Her area of interest includes contemporary Middle East, India
Middle East relations, India-Gulf relations, India’s national security and sustainable development. She is 
a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Fellow. 
Dr. Singh has authored India and the Gulf: A Security Perspective (London: Routledge), co-authored a 
book titled Persian Gulf 2018: India’s Relations with the Region (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan) and has 
co-edited Islamic Movements in the Middle East: Ideologies, Practices and Political Participation (New 
Delhi: Knowledge World) and National Security Challenges: Young Scholars’ Perspective (New Delhi: 
Pentagon Press). Her research papers have appeared in many national, international journals and think 
tanks in India and abroad. 
In April 2018, she was selected to an elite-invitation only Project Interchange Initiative by the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs, Israel and American Jewish Committee, US for a field visit to Israel as part of its public 
diplomacy drive. 
Dr. Singh is regularly interviewed by several A-list international and national media agencies on Middle 
Eastern Affairs such as Haaretz, The New Arab, Al Ahram Weekly, The Times of India, The Economic 
Times, The Wire, The Financial Express etc.  and contributes opinion pieces in several newspapers both 
at national and international levels. Dr. Singh has served as the Assistant Editor of Contemporary Review 
of the Middle East (Sage Publications) and Managing Editor of CLAWS Journal (KW Publishers)