Ibrahim Khatib is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and a Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, his work engages in interdisciplinary research on the understanding and resolution of conflict, Middle East politics, the Palestinian question, Religion; Democracy and conflict; the Arab–Israeli conflict, conflicts in the Arab world, and protest movements across the MENA region.

Dr. Khatib earned his PhD in Political Science in 2018 from Humboldt University of Berlin. His doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between identity perception and conflict in the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict. Between 2018 and 2020, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and Harvard University. In 2018–2019, he carried out postdoctoral research in Middle East Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, and in 2019–2020 he was a Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, where he conducted several research projects. While at Harvard, Dr. Khatib founded a research group focusing on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict.

His work has been accepted and published in several academic journals, including Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Politics and Religion, Political Studies Review, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, International Journal of Conflict Management, Citizenship Studies, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Ethnopolitics, among others.

Dr. Khatib has been invited to deliver lectures at leading universities, including the University of Oxford, Harvard University, King's College London, and Tufts University, among others. He has also presented his research at international conferences in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Japan, and elsewhere. He is a member of multiple academic associations, including the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), the Political Studies Association (PSA) in the United Kingdom, and the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), among others. In addition, he has published opinion pieces and appeared on various media platforms, including Al Jazeera, Al Araby, the BBC, and TRT Arabic, commenting on political developments in the Middle East and beyond.

He currently serves as the Leading Principal Investigator of a research project funded by a competitive grant from the Qatar National Research Fund (2024–2027), titled: “Why Do People Protest? A Comparative Analytical Experimental Study in the Middle East and North Africa."​