Scholars and policymakers have increasingly recognized that Islamist movements and actors vary widely – from domestically oriented, quietist movements engaging in democratic systems to revolutionary, armed movements aiming to upend the nation-state system. Yet, little has been done to understand how the nature of individual movements, and their success, often differs substantially at the subnational level.
Long repressed, banned, and exiled, many Islamist movements and parties across the Middle East and North Africa witnessed a moment…
POMEPS Studies 25: Refugees and Migration Movements in the Middle East In February 2017, the Project on Middle East Political…
Engaging and influencing public policy debates on areas of their expertise is a core part of the mission of academics.…
In years past, Islamist televangelists like Amr Khaled, Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Tareq Suwaidan seemed like the future of Arab media.…
Media production and distribution in the Middle East has long been tightly monitored and and controlled by the state, making…
Turkey has been in the news repeatedly in 2016, from the coup attempt of July to the subsequent government purges…
On October 14, more than a dozen scholars of Turkish politics came together at Rice University’s Baker Institute in Houston…
The Arab world never seemed more unified than during the incandescent days of the 2011 Arab uprisings. Tunisia’s revolution clearly…
Late in the evening of July 15, a faction of the Turkish army blocked key bridges into Istanbul and occupied…