Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yetim is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Eskişehir Osmangazi University and a Non-Resident Fellow at Ibn Haldun University’s Center for Gulf Studies and Global Policy. From 2018 to 2023 he was a Gulf–Levant expert at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (ORSAM), and for nearly four years he edited the monthly magazine Middle East Analysis. He is currently a field editor of the Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. He holds a BA from Karadeniz Technical University (2009), an MA from Sakarya University (2011) and a PhD from Ankara University (2016), where his dissertation examined Hezbollah in the Middle East and Lebanon from a neo-Weberian perspective. His research focuses on Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle East, Türkiye–Qatar relations, Hezbollah and Lebanon, and he has published academic articles, book chapters, commentaries and policy analyses on these subjects.