POMEPS Conversations 42 with Laurie A. Brand ~ 11/3/14
#42 — November 3, 2014. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, speaks with Laurie A. Brand, Robert Grandford Wright Professor of...
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Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. He is the author of Boundaries and...
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By Eva Bellin, Brandeis University * This memo was prepared for “The Arab Thermidor: The Resurgence of the Security State” workshop held at the London School of Economics and Political Science Middle...
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By Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve University * This memo was prepared for “The Arab Thermidor: The Resurgence of the Security State” workshop held at the London School of Economics and Political...
View ArticlePOMEPS Conversations 45 with Richard A. Nielsen ~ 2/2/15
#45 — February 2, 2015. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, speaks with Richard A. Nielsen, assistant professor of political science...
View ArticlePOMEPS Conversations 47 with Monica Marks ~ 2/17/15
#47 — February 17, 2015. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, speaks with Monica Marks, a visiting fellow at Columbia University’s...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Tunisia, Islam & Upcoming Events
In the Monkey Cage, Mark R. Beissinger, Amaney A. Jamal, and Kevin Mazur (all of Princeton University) examine the contrasting strategies of the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes preceding the uprisings....
View ArticleReflections Five Years After the Uprisings
POMEPS Studies 18 — March 28, 2016 The early months of 2016 mark five years since the eruption of the Arab uprising. The region’s wars, failed transitions, resurgent authoritarianism, and spiraling...
View ArticleEgypt, Uprising and Gender Politics: Gendering Bodies/Gendering Space
By Sherine Hafez, University of California, Riverside *This essay was prepared for the Women and gender in Middle East politics workshop, March 11, 2016. Though the Egyptian uprising of 2011 sought...
View ArticleWomen’s Equality: Constitutions and Revolutions in Egypt
By Ellen McLarney, Duke University *This essay was prepared for the Women and gender in Middle East politics workshop, March 11, 2016. Many criticisms of the 2012 Egyptian constitution revolved around...
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