POMEPS Studies 25: Refugees and Migration Movements in the Middle East In February 2017, the Project on Middle East Political…
New Challenges to Public and Policy Engagement
Engaging and influencing public policy debates on areas of their expertise is a core part of the mission of academics.…
New Islamic Media
In years past, Islamist televangelists like Amr Khaled, Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Tareq Suwaidan seemed like the future of Arab media.…
Islam, Islamism, and the Media
Media production and distribution in the Middle East has long been tightly monitored and and controlled by the state, making…
Contemporary Turkish Politics
Turkey has been in the news repeatedly in 2016, from the coup attempt of July to the subsequent government purges…
Contemporary Turkish Politics
On October 14, more than a dozen scholars of Turkish politics came together at Rice University’s Baker Institute in Houston…
Transnational Diffusion and Cooperation in the Middle East
The Arab world never seemed more unified than during the incandescent days of the 2011 Arab uprisings. Tunisia’s revolution clearly…
Briefing #30: Turkey’s coup attempt
Late in the evening of July 15, a faction of the Turkish army blocked key bridges into Istanbul and occupied…
From Mobilization to Counter-Revolution
The Arab uprisings triggered a fierce regional counter-mobilization by threatened regimes and the elites who benefited from the status quo.…
Transnational Diffusion and Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa
The papers in this series grew out of an international workshop co-sponsored by the International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian…