POMEPS Blog

Arab Climate Urbanism: An Ecological Fix?

Deen Sharp, London School of Economics and Political Science The climate emergency is an urban emergency. Cities, and the processes…

Living with a Future Submergence: Dams, Temporality and Sacrifice in Northeastern Turkey

Ekin Kurtiç, Brandeis University The number 711 is inscribed in several locations, on the rugged mountains, on the doors and…

Words, Water, and Waste: How Government Discourse Shapes Environmental Protest in Lebanon and Jordan

Jérémie Langlois, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown University When do preexisting environmental demands enter the discourse of…

Soil, Dirt, Earth: Deserts, Rural Communities, and Power in Jordan

Taraf Abu Hamdan, Central European University “The wonder of the desert is that is barren, and lacks vegetation, and it…

POMEPS Studies 46: Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

In February 2022, POMEPS convened a virtual workshop bringing together interdisciplinary contributions from anthropology, public health, political science, history, and…

Call for Applications: The Arabic Network for Political Science Workshop on Political Transformation in Tunisia

The Arab Network for Political Science, in cooperation with the University of the Southern Mediterranean in Tunisia, announces an invitation…

Contested Legitimacies, Digital Authoritarianism, Century International (S. 11, Ep. 30)

Jannis Julien Grimm of the Freie University of Berlin joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss his new…

Protesting Jordan, Climate Change in the Gulf, and Social Development in Iran (S. 11, Ep. 29)

Jillian Schwedler of Hunter College joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss her new book, Protesting Jordan: Geographies…

The Last Ottoman Generation, Why Women Support Conservative Parties, Middle East Scholar Barometer (S. 11, Ep. 28)

Michael Provence of University of California San Diego joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss his new book,…

Marketing Democracy, Who Votes After a Coup, and Egyptian Prisoners (S. 11, Ep. 27)

Erin Snider of Texas A&M University joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss her new book, Marketing Democracy:…