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

Youth and Labor Discourses in the MENA region: A Tournament of Narratives and their Implications

Nada Berrada, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In a period of neoliberalism and rapid globalization, youth coming of age…

The Landscape of Labor Protest in Jordan: Between State Repression and Popular Solidarity

Matthew Lacouture, University of Chicago Workers in Jordan face considerable obstacles to mobilization. Organizationally, workers in the 17 official unions—under…

The Many Leverages of Tunisian Labor

Ahmad Al-Sholi Stony Brook University Tunisia suffers from high unemployment,[1] high inequality, informality and precariousness[2] just as the rest of…

Who are unions for? Snapshots of union-activist relations in Redeyef, Tunisia, in the late Ben Ali era

Chantal Berman, Georgetown University Tunisia’s powerful premier labor union, the UGTT, has inspired a rich literature on the relationship between…

The emergence of labor market outsiders among GCC citizens

Steffen Hertog, London School of Economics In 2020, the number of Saudi civil service employees grew by 10,165 to a…

Unemployed and Unaware? Communicating Labor Policy Changes to the Saudi Workforce

Ahmad Binobaid, King Saud University Jonas Draege, Oslo New University College Andrew Leber, Harvard University Introduction MENA governments have faced…

COVID-19 and Algeria’s Labor Movement

Ashley Anderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Introduction On March 10, 2019, public sector workers poured into the streets…

The Case of Turkish Labor Mediation: Disenfranchising the Workers

Doga Eralp, American University The Turkish Labor Mediation Law, established in January 2018, works at the expense of employees. The…

Youth Employment Transitions in the Egyptian Market- Has anything changed? A Study on Youth Employment Dynamics using the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Surveys between 1998 and 2018

Samar Abdelmageed, The British University in Egypt (BUE) Egypt is a young society with more than 20 million people within…

Introduction: Labor and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Introduction: Labor and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa Dina Bishara, Cornell University Ian Hartshorn, University of Nevada,…