James Toth is an anthropologist who studies Egypt, the Arab world, and the wider Islamic community. He has taught at…
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“Sayyid Qutb” – A Conversation with James Toth
James Toth is an anthropologist who studies Egypt, the Arab world, and the wider Islamic community. He has taught at…
Continue ReadingPOMEPS Conversations: James Toth (S. 2, Ep. 4)
#25 – October 10, 2013. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…
Continue Reading“After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies” – A Conversation with Christopher Davidson
Christopher Davidson is a reader in Middle East Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University,…
Continue Reading“After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies” – A Conversation with Christopher Davidson
Christopher Davidson is a reader in Middle East Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University,…
Continue ReadingTransnational Connections in the Middle East: Political Economy, Security and Geopolitical Imaginaries
While some view the rise of free trade zones in the Persian Gulf starting in the 1970s as the inevitable…
Continue ReadingDefying the Resource Course
Why do some oil-rich rentier states manage to create succesful state-owned enterprises when so many similar states fall prey to…
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