POMEPS Blog

Jihad in the City, (Dis)courtesy Bias, and Morocco’s Election (S. 11, Ep. 6)

Raphael Lefevre of University of Oxford discusses his latest book, Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in…

Rethinking the Resource Curse, Ethno-Racial Identity in Iran, and Iraqi Elections (S. 11, Ep. 5)

Benjamin Smith of University of Florida & David Waldner of University of Virginia discuss their latest book, Rethinking the…

Borderlands, Re-Thinking the Tanzim, and Iraqi Elections (S. 11, Ep. 4)

Raffaella Del Sarto of Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe talks about her latest book, Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East,…

POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops (Fall 2021)

For a list of our Summer 2021 Virtual Research Workshops, please click here. Workshop #1 Date and Time Friday, September…

Barometer #2 (September 2021)

Middle East Scholar Barometer #2 (August 26-September 9, 2021) Survey Methodology: This survey was carried out August 26-September 09, 2021, online using…

Arab Constitutionalism, Religious Peacebuilding in Iraq, & Digital Authoritarianism (S. 11, Ep. 3)

Zaid al-Ali of Princeton University talks about his latest book, Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution, with Marc Lynch on this week’s…

POMEPS Announcements – Fall 2021

Greetings! POMEPS is off to an exciting start for the Fall 2021 semester. We are thrilled to share with you…

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: Winter School on “Variations in Populism”

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) announces the opening of registration for the third round of the…

Revolution in Syria, The Journey Home, and Lebanon’s Banking Crisis (S. 11, Ep. 2)

Kevin Mazur, a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, talks about his latest book, Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression,…

POMEPS Studies 44 – Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East: A Transregional Approach

In February 2020, the editors of this volume organized a POMEPS workshop that explored the origins of the disciplinary divide…