With last week’s publication of The Ethics of Research in the Middle East, we are delighted to officially announce the…
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POMEPS Background on Iraq’s Crisis
* Update: The essays in POMEPS Briefing #24 Iraq Between Maliki and the Islamic State offer a variety of perspectives on Iraq’s…
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Dina Bishara received POMEPS Travel-Research-Engagement (TRE) grants* in spring 2011 and spring 2012 to study labor union movements in Tunisia and Egypt.…
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Although Qatar has come to the fore of Middle East regional politics in recent years, few scholars have devoted significant research to…
Continue ReadingEgypt’s Election: Beyond Sisi’s Win
Less than a year after the military’s ouster of elected President Mohamed Morsi, Egyptians returned to the polls declaring former…
Continue ReadingAl-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).…
Continue ReadingMecham and Hwang: Islamist Parties
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…
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