The recent escalation of violence in Gaza has prompted new debate and reignited old questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here…
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Masoud: Counting Islam
POMEPS is excited to have just received a shipment of Tarek Masoud’s recent release Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt…
Continue ReadingPOMEPS Fall 2014 Event Series
The Project on Middle East Political Science is delighted to invite you to our exciting fall 2014 event series! We’re thrilled to…
Continue ReadingAnnouncing POMEPS Studies
With last week’s publication of The Ethics of Research in the Middle East, we are delighted to officially announce the…
Continue ReadingPOMEPS 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…
Continue ReadingTRE Spotlight: Dina Bishara
Dina Bishara received POMEPS Travel-Research-Engagement (TRE) grants* in spring 2011 and spring 2012 to study labor union movements in Tunisia and Egypt.…
Continue ReadingKamrava: Qatar
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…
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