Abdullah Enes Tuzgen graduated from Bogazici University in 2008 (BA with Honors), and from Sabanci University in 2010 (MA in Political Science). He currently pursues his PhD education at the University of Delaware (U.S.A.). Before joining the department in 2017, he worked as research and teaching assistant at Alliance of Civilizations Institute (Istanbul), Sabanci University, and the University of Delaware. He worked as research fellow at the Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (ISAR, Istanbul). His research interests are Theories of International relations, Politics of the Middle East and the Gulf, Regionalism, and Saudi Foreign Policy. He studied Arabic in Jordan (2003) and Syria (2010).