With Turkish parliamentary elections fast approaching on June 7, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is campaigning hard among Turkey’s religious electorate.…
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Tarek Masoud is an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the…
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POMEPS is excited to have just received a shipment of Tarek Masoud’s recent release Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt…
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Turkey’s citizens voted in local elections on March 30 amid growing controversy surrounding Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Despite corruption…
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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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#17 – February 25, 2013. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…
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#15 – February 13, 2013. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…
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