She obtained her Ph.D in Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. Dr. Al-Ketbi has served as a member of the Consultative Committee of the UAE Center for Strategic Studies. She is currently the Director of Women’s Programs at the Gulf Research Center. At the Gulf Research Center, she was also a member of the core team of the Arabic Human Development Report 2006. She has published a number of papers on women’s issues in the GCC Countries, democratic transformations in GCC Countries and the concept of citizenship in the GCC Counties. Her most widely published work is “The Security Dimensions of Military Relations between GCC countries and the USA: The Global Community and the War on Terrorism: Threat or Opportunity?”