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Middle East Scholar Barometer The Middle East Scholar Barometer is a project of the University of Maryland’s Critical Issues Poll…

States of Subsistence & the Politics of Bread in Egypt (S. 11, Ep. 33)

José Ciro Martínez of the University of Cambridge joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss his new book,…

Seventh Member State, Lebanese Elections, Succession of Mohamed bin Zayed (S. 11, Ep. 32)

Megan Brown of Swarthmore College joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss her new book, The Seventh Member…

Transitional Justice in Process and Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (S. 11, Ep. 31)

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Jeannie Sowers of the University of New Hampshire joins Marc Lynch to discuss POMEPS…

What Displacement Teaches us about Surviving Changed Climates

Kali Rubaii, Purdue University “When I came here, I could not find the right kind of clay,” Ma Jowad[1] told…

Environmentalism without Environmentalists? Climate Change and the State in Turkey

Murat Arsel, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Fikret Adaman, Boğaziçi University In the wake of dramatic warnings from the IPCC…

New Constructions of Environmental Orientalism: Climate Change Mitigation Solar Power Projects in the Sahara Desert

Khaoula Bengezi, York University The Sahara Desert represents a binary duality: it is imagined as a spatial abyss of…

Between ‘Suffering’ and ‘Surfing’: Environmental Sustainability Management and its Transnational Dynamics on the Arabian Peninsula

Tobias Zumbrägel, CARPO – Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient Over the past years, the Arabian Peninsula…

The Sanitization of Garbage Politics: A Case for Studying Waste at the Local, State, and International Politics in the MENA

Lauren M. Baker, Northwestern University Introduction: Bag bans, global environmental politics. and sanitization In 2016, the Moroccan government passed…

Climate, The Environment and Health of Migrant Workers: Lessons from Kuwait

Barrak Alahmad, Harvard University & Kuwait University Workers are often exposed to harmful mixtures of chemical and physical exposures at…

Introduction: Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Jeannie Sowers, University of New Hampshire and Marc Lynch, The George Washington University Environmental politics is no longer a marginal…