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Karine Walther is an associate professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar. She is currently working on her second book: Spreading the Faith: American Missionaries, Aramco and the Birth of the US-Saudi Special Relationship, 1890-1955, forthcoming with University of North Carolina Press in 2018. Her first book, Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921, was published by UNC Press in August 2015. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, a Maîtrise and Licence in Sociology from the University of Paris VIII, and a B.A. in American studies from the University of Texas, Austin.