Ameen Omar

Ameen Omar is a Ph.D. student at Princeton, working on slavery and post-abolition in the Persian/Arabian Gulf from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. Prior to joining the program, Ameen spent time studying Turkish at İbn Haldun Üniversitesi.

He holds a master’s in History from George Washington and a second master’s in Islamic Studies from Hamad Bin Khalifa. While studying in Doha, Ameen wrote his thesis on The Bin Jelmood House, described as the first slavery museum in the Middle East and North Africa.