Less than a year after the military’s ouster of elected President Mohamed Morsi, Egyptians returned to the polls declaring former…
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By Guido Steinberg, German Institute for International and Security Affairs * This memo was prepared for the “Visions of Gulf…
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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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POMEPS Studies 6: Rethinking Islamist Politics
Rethinking Islamist Politics POMEPS Studies 6 – February 11, 2014 The Arab uprisings of 2011 radically reshaped the environment within…
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#33 — February 7, 2014. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…
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By Mokhtar Awad, Center for American Progress *This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Islamist Politics” conference, January 24, 2014. …
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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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By Tarek Masoud, Harvard University * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Islamist Politics” conference, January 24, 2014. Before…
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