POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops (Spring 2022)

For a list of our Fall 2021 Virtual Research Workshops, please click here.

Workshop #1

Date and Time

Friday, February 25, 2022, at 8:30 am – 10:30 am ET

Moderator

Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science

Papers and Authors

“Responsibility to Protect, the Libya Effect, and Politics of Despair in Syria;” Basileus Zeno, Amherst College

“Competitive Regional Involvement and its consequences for Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Middle East;” Salam Alsaadi, University of Toronto

“Ideational Capture and American Foreign Policy in Egypt;” Erin Snider, Texas A&M University & David Faris, Roosevelt University

Discussants

Samer Abboud, Villanova University

Sean Yom, Temple University

Lawrence Rubin, Georgia Tech

Workshop #2

Date and Time

Friday, March 4, 2022, at 11 am – 1 pm ET

Moderator

Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science

Papers and Authors

“Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict: Evidence from Palestinian Villages in the 1948 War ;” Daniel Arnon, University of Arizona

“Gender and Item Non-Response in Surveys from the MENA Region;”Carolyn Barnett, Princeton University and Elizabeth Nugent, Yale University

“Privatized Acceptance and Neo-Ottoman Nationalism: Conservative Turkish Responses to the Syrian Refugees;” Nurbanu Yaşar, Istanbul University

Discussants

Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University

Lindsay Benstead, Portland State University

Kelsey Norman, Rice University

Workshop #3

Date and Time

Friday, March 18, 2022, at 9 am – 12 pm ET

Moderator

Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science

Papers and Authors

“Acting ‘As if not: De-Sectarianisation as Sectarianisation in the Arab politics;” Mustafa Menshawy, Lancaster University

“Repression Through Time: Legacies of Transnational Repression in the Diaspora;”Gözde Böcü, University of Toronto

“The Politics of Street Names: Reconstructing Iran’s Collective Identity;” Ehsan Kashfi, University of Alberta

“Cracks & Seams Within the Bisri Dam Project The Environmental Intifada, Neoliberal Globalization & Developmental Logic in Lebanon;” Mona Khneisser, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Discussants

Helle Malmvig, The Danish Institute for International Studies

Fiona Adamson, School of Oriental and African Studies

Narges Bajoghli, Johns Hopkins University

Deen Sharp, London School of Economics

Workshop #4

Date and Time

Friday, March 25, 2022, at 10 am – 12 pm ET

Moderator

Marc Lynch, Professor at George Washington University & Director of Project on Middle East Political Science

Papers and Authors

“World Society and Women’s Political Participation in Democratic Transitions: The Case of Tunisia, 2011-2021;” Maro Youssef, University of Southern California

“Exploring materialities and situated experience in security assistance settings: experience from gender training fields in Tunisia;” Daniela Musina, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

“Strategies of bottom-up engagement with municipal governance in Morocco: collaboration and contestation through institutional petitions;” Francesco Colin, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS-EUR)

Discussants

Marwa Shalaby, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Simone Tholens, Cardiff University

Francesco Cavatorta, Laval University, Quebec