Working at Persian Gulf Universities Can Be a Challenge for Western Academics

By Jabeen Bhatti, Janelle Dumalaon, and Aida Alami. The fight for more visibility and higher rankings on the global higher-education stage has wealthy Gulf Cooperation Council countries scrambling for international academic talent, and offering salary packages with a reputation for being generous. That reputation, it turns out, is not always deserved.
But for many struggling Arab academics from countries where teaching is less lucrative, a common solution is to look toward the Gulf. More...