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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…

Call for Proposals – The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa: 2 Years Later

In April 2020, the Project on Middle East Political Science published POMEPS Studies 39: The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle…

Call for Applications: Studying Public Opinion in the Contemporary Middle East: Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices

“Studying Public Opinion in the Contemporary Middle East: Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices” June 12-17, 2022 – Amman, Jordan Application…

Youth and Labor Discourses in the MENA region: A Tournament of Narratives and their Implications

Nada Berrada, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In a period of neoliberalism and rapid globalization, youth coming of age…

The Landscape of Labor Protest in Jordan: Between State Repression and Popular Solidarity

Matthew Lacouture, University of Chicago Workers in Jordan face considerable obstacles to mobilization. Organizationally, workers in the 17 official unions—under…

The Many Leverages of Tunisian Labor

Ahmad Al-Sholi Stony Brook University Tunisia suffers from high unemployment,[1] high inequality, informality and precariousness[2] just as the rest of…

Who are unions for? Snapshots of union-activist relations in Redeyef, Tunisia, in the late Ben Ali era

Chantal Berman, Georgetown University Tunisia’s powerful premier labor union, the UGTT, has inspired a rich literature on the relationship between…

The emergence of labor market outsiders among GCC citizens

Steffen Hertog, London School of Economics In 2020, the number of Saudi civil service employees grew by 10,165 to a…

Unemployed and Unaware? Communicating Labor Policy Changes to the Saudi Workforce

Ahmad Binobaid, King Saud University Jonas Draege, Oslo New University College Andrew Leber, Harvard University Introduction MENA governments have faced…

COVID-19 and Algeria’s Labor Movement

Ashley Anderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Introduction On March 10, 2019, public sector workers poured into the streets…

The Case of Turkish Labor Mediation: Disenfranchising the Workers

Doga Eralp, American University The Turkish Labor Mediation Law, established in January 2018, works at the expense of employees. The…