Environmental Politics in the MENA Archives - Project on Middle East Political Science

What Displacement Teaches us about Surviving Changed Climates

Kali Rubaii, Purdue University “When I came here, I could not find the right kind of clay,” Ma Jowad[1] told…

Environmentalism without Environmentalists? Climate Change and the State in Turkey

Murat Arsel, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Fikret Adaman, Boğaziçi University In the wake of dramatic warnings from the IPCC…

New Constructions of Environmental Orientalism: Climate Change Mitigation Solar Power Projects in the Sahara Desert

Khaoula Bengezi, York University The Sahara Desert represents a binary duality: it is imagined as a spatial abyss of…

Between ‘Suffering’ and ‘Surfing’: Environmental Sustainability Management and its Transnational Dynamics on the Arabian Peninsula

Tobias Zumbrägel, CARPO – Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient Over the past years, the Arabian Peninsula…

The Sanitization of Garbage Politics: A Case for Studying Waste at the Local, State, and International Politics in the MENA

Lauren M. Baker, Northwestern University Introduction: Bag bans, global environmental politics. and sanitization In 2016, the Moroccan government passed…

Climate, The Environment and Health of Migrant Workers: Lessons from Kuwait

Barrak Alahmad, Harvard University & Kuwait University Workers are often exposed to harmful mixtures of chemical and physical exposures at…

Arab Climate Urbanism: An Ecological Fix?

Deen Sharp, London School of Economics and Political Science The climate emergency is an urban emergency. Cities, and the processes…

Introduction: Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Jeannie Sowers, University of New Hampshire and Marc Lynch, The George Washington University Environmental politics is no longer a marginal…

Living with a Future Submergence: Dams, Temporality and Sacrifice in Northeastern Turkey

Ekin Kurtiç, Brandeis University The number 711 is inscribed in several locations, on the rugged mountains, on the doors and…

Words, Water, and Waste: How Government Discourse Shapes Environmental Protest in Lebanon and Jordan

Jérémie Langlois, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown University When do preexisting environmental demands enter the discourse of…