Memos Archives - Project on Middle East Political Science

Introduction – Urban Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Mona Harb, Marc Lynch, and Jillian Schwedler Urban politics has received growing attention in the anthropology, sociology, and political…

Munqeth Othman Agha, University of Trento Dozens of buildings in Deir-ez-Zor were marked for demolition in February 2023 on…

Abbas Jong, Humboldt University of Berlin The transformations in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime of power in the…

Gehad Abaza, University of California, Santa Barbara Nawal began drawing henna when she was a child growing up in…

Carine Assaf, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Introduction I grew up in Beirut in the late 1990s witnessing chaotic traffic, smoke,…

Ronay Bakan, Johns Hopkins University In summer 2015, the 30-year civil war between the Turkish state and Kurdish guerillas…

Zak Tobias, Queen Mary University of London Introduction The multiple narratives surrounding the Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH), the self-proclaimed…

Omar Sirri, SOAS University of London wayn rayah? For the better and worse part of two decades, security checkpoints…

Alex Shams, University of Chicago “As we got closer to Karbala,” Zaynab explained, her voice tense with emotion, “the…

Seréna Nilsson Rabia, University of Bergen Introduction In February 2019, Algerians started taking to the streets every Friday to…