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Tarek Masoud is an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the…
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Tarek Masoud is an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the…
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Philip Howard and Muzammil Hussain discuss their recent release Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring. Philip Howard…
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Carrie Rosefsky Wickham is an associate professor of political science at Emory University. Wickham’s current research focuses on the origins…
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Rethinking Islamist Politics
François Burgat, Thomas Hegghammer, Bruce Lawrence, and Tarek Masoud analyze the state of Islamist politics in the Middle East. They…
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“Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age” – A Conversation with David Faris
David Faris is an assistant professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University where he teaches Egyptian and Middle Eastern Politics.…
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