POMEPS is advised by a Steering Committee and Advisory Board comprised of leading Middle East specialists at a range of…
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Matthiesen: Sectarian Gulf
For a concise overview of the Arab Uprisings in the Persian Gulf countries read Toby Matthiesen’s Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab…
Continue ReadingMigdal: Shifting Sands
Joel S. Migdal recently published Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East (Columbia University Press). In Shifting Sands, Migdal traces the…
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In fall 2013, Marc Lynch published “A Syria Reading list” to aid those seeking to understand the conflict in Syria at a…
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POMEPS has had the pleasure of hosting numerous book launches with top-notch scholars in the field of political science since…
Continue ReadingDiamond and Plattner: Democratization and Authoritarianism
The Johns Hopkins University Press has recently released Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, edited by Larry Diamond and…
Continue ReadingWelcome to The Monkey Cage!
We would like to belatedly announce and explain an important change in the activities of the Project on Middle East…
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Gana: The Making of the Tunisian Revolution
The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects (Edinburgh University Press), edited by Nouri Gana, is a multidisciplinary collection…
Continue ReadingCammett: Compassionate Communalism and Non-state Social Welfare
POMEPS Steering Committee member Melani Cammett has just published Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon and The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare, both…
Continue ReadingCarapico: Political Aid and Arab Activism
Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond, recently published Political Aid and Arab Activism: Democracy Promotion, Justice, and Representation (Cambridge University Press).…
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