Dr. Tell received his D.Phil in Politics from Oxford University. Focusing on the political economy and development of the Middle East, Tell is the author of The Social Origins of Middle Eastern Monarchy: The Moral Economy of Hashemite Rule in Jordan. (New York: Palgrave, 2013); and editor of The Resilience of Hashemite Rule: Politics and the State in Jordan before 1967 (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen Orient Contemporain, Beirut, 2002).