Less than a year after the military’s ouster of elected President Mohamed Morsi, Egyptians returned to the polls declaring former…
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Al-Ali: The Struggle for Iraq’s Future
Zaid Al-Ali has recently published The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy (Yale University Press).…
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Updated: POMEPS is especially pleased to announce that Quinn Mecham and Julie Chernov Hwang have a new edited volume Islamist Parties and…
Continue ReadingWickham: The Muslim Brotherhood
As we make the final preparations for the POMEPS Annual Conference this Friday and Saturday, we’re reflecting on all of the outstanding research being carried…
Continue ReadingTRE Spotlight: Wendy Pearlman
Wendy Pearlman, a POMEPS Travel-Research-Engagement (TRE) grant recipient, recently published “Fathers of Revolution” in Guernica based on extensive fieldwork with Syrian refugees in camps…
Continue ReadingWehrey: Sectarian Politics in the Gulf
Last week POMEPS featured Toby Matthiesen’s Sectarian Gulf on the blog, and this week we’re excited to showcase yet another…
Continue ReadingSummer Reading with Jillian Schwedler
POMEPS is delighted to kick off our new “Summer Reading” series with POMEPS Steering Committee member Jillian Schwedler, professor of political science at…
Continue ReadingTRE Grantee Spotlight: Sean L. Yom
Sean L. Yom, a summer 2012 POMEPS Travel-Research-Engagement (TRE) grantee, recently published “Tribal Politics in Contemporary Jordan: The Case of…
Continue ReadingSerena: It Takes More than a Network
Chad C. Serena recently published It Takes More than a Network: The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation (Stanford University Press). In It…
Continue ReadingThe POMEPS Steering Committee
POMEPS is advised by a Steering Committee and Advisory Board comprised of leading Middle East specialists at a range of…
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