For a list of our Spring 2022 Virtual Research Workshops, please click here.
Workshop #1
Date and Time
Friday, September 30, 2022, at 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm ET
Moderator
Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science
Papers and Authors
“Leveraging Selective State Capacity: Understanding Changing Responses to Migration & Refugees” Kelsey Norman, Rice University
Discussants
Anne Marie Baylouny, Naval Postgraduate School
Workshop #2
Date and Time
Friday, October 21, 2022, at 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
Moderator
Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science
Papers and Authors
“The Religious-Secular Cleavage and Ethnic Minority Parties: A Comparative Perspective from Israel and Turkey” Asli Elitsoy, Istanbul Medipol University
“How Opposition Movements Use Legislative Powers in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Islamist Groups in the Arab World” Marwa Shalaby, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Scott Williamson, Università Bocconi
“Ethnic Identity Development in Wartime” Sule Yaylaci, University of Pennsylvania
Discussants
Sebnem Gumuscu, Middlebury College
Michael Herb, Georgia State University
Aysegul Aydin, University of Colorado
Workshop #3
Date and Time
Thursday, November 11, 2022, at 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ET
Moderator
Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science
Papers and Authors
“The Charge of Being a ‘Charity’: Marginalization of Refugee-Led Humanitarian Organizations in Turkey” Merve Erdilmen, Carleton University
“‘Who turns his back to his sheikh may go astray’ Women of Al Da’awa Al Salafiyya and questions of Agency and Empowerment” Hebatullah Selim, University of Birmingham
“‘Children of Ben Ali’: Getting Political Through Silence” Maria Nicola Stragapede, Scuola Normale Superiore
Discussants
Lama Mourad, Carleton University
Aaron Rock Singer, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Laryssa Chomiak, Centre d’Étude Maghrébines à Tunis
Workshop #4
Date and Time
Friday, December 9, 2022, at 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ET
Moderator
Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science
Papers and Authors
“Reassessing the Ascendancy of Assad and Hussein: The Institutional Blueprint of Authoritarian Resilience in Syria and Iraq, 1968–1979″ Motasem Abuzaid, Georgetown University
“Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution” Gilad Wenig, University of California, Los Angeles
“Bounded Dissent in Saudi Cultural Production: Conceptualizing Autocratic Legitimacy Beyond Performance” Azim Wazeer, University of Oxford
Discussants
Sean Yom, Temple University
Steven Brooke, University of Louisville
Pascal Menoret, Brandeis University
Workshop #5
Date and Time
Friday, December 16, 2022, at 9:30 am – 12:00 pm ET
Moderator
Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science
Papers and Authors
“The State Starts When the Tribe Ends States, Tribes, and Rural Communities” Taraf Abu Hamdan, Central European University
“Does the constitution even matter? Government formation and paralysis in Lebanon and Iraq” Fadi Nicholas Nassar, King’s College London
“State-society power struggle in Iraq. Between the “non-state” (لا دولة) and “we want a homeland” (نريد وط ن)” Paulina Warsza, University of Warsaw
“Explaining Electoral Intimidation in Autocracies: Evidence from Mubarak’s Egypt” Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Columbia University
Discussants
Eleanor Gao, University of Exeter
John Nagle, University of Notre Dame
Toby Dodge, London School of Economics,
Neil Ketchley, University of Oxford