Weird to be posting about anything other than Trump’s madness, but as always, turning to women for hope! My piece @carnegieendowment.org explores lived experiences of women in Saudi study abroad programs & their role in the monarchy’s shifting gender landscape! carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Gender Politics and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Scholarship Program

Interviews with scholarship alumnae show that studying abroad changed their stances toward veiling, gender reform, and professional life at home.

carnegieendowment.org

This is a big one! We have two symposia, a book review roundtable, and a provocative and remarkable opening essay by Rabab El Mahdi that problematizes the framing of 'regional' or 'local' perspectives within Middle East political science. #menasky

Our Fall 2024 Newsletter is out! This is the last issue with our wonderful editorial team @nerminallam.bsky.social@seanyom.bsky.social & Gamze Çavdar, before we welcome a new dynamic trio of editors: @dbgreenwald.bsky.social@sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social & Samer Shehata #menasky

The new @apsamena.bsky.social issue features a symposium on Gaza solidarity protests, including an article by @jannisgrimm.bsky.social and me on student protests in Berlin and the securitization of campus politics apsamena.org/wp-content/u...

APSA MENA Politics Section@apsamena.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Fall 2024 Newsletter is out! This is the last issue with our wonderful editorial team @nerminallam.bsky.social@seanyom.bsky.social & Gamze Çavdar, before we welcome a new dynamic trio of editors: @dbgreenwald.bsky.social@sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social & Samer Shehata #menasky

Our APSA MENA Spring 2024 newsletter is out! Most of the issue is dedicated to Gaza! Our hearts are heavy with the weight of the war's horrendous toll, so grateful to the amazing contributors who shared their insight, knowledge, and wisdom @apsamena.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1106...

APSA MENA Call for early-career MENA scholars! Attend the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA (Sept 4-8) as part of our Research Development Group on Political Behavior. Apply by April 30! web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...

Our editorial term for APSA MENA newsletter is wrapping up! Send us ur application to become our next editor/s. The editor's new term kicks off with the Spring 2025 issue! Big shoutout to my wonderful coeditors, Gamze Cavdar and @seanyom.bsky.social–bittersweet to conclude this chapter.

APSA MENA Politics Section@apsamena.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our incredible newsletter team's term is coming to an end soon! We're looking for a new editor - or a team - to take on this exciting role for the next 3 years. The deadline for nominations is June 1, and the editorial term will start after the fall 2024 issue. More details in the next posts >

How can women's presence and influence in subnational decision-making be promoted? GLD's upcoming roundtable will discuss gender and local politics in the Global South, with experts working in #India, the #MiddleEast, & #Africa. Welcome to join us on April 4! bit.ly/4afSF6S

The Two Gustavs 🤍🖤🤍

To end my overzealous posting for today, bringing this episode of The Fire These Times to your attention. Tried my hand at co-hosting a podcast by getting my friends on a call to ask them questions I've been thinking about open.spotify.com/episode/05Nd...

148/ Understanding Seen and Unseen Violence in Israel-Palestine w/ Diana Greenwald & Alexei Abrahams

Listen to this episode from The Fire These Times on Spotify. For episode 148, Dana El Kurd and Joey Ayoub are joined by Diana Greenwald and Alexei Abrahams to talk about seen and unseen violence in Is...

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Can't think of a better reason to wake up at 5am😆Thank you to the brilliant minds who participated in our @arabpsn.bsky.social book manuscript workshop! Special thanks to our fantastic discussants for @lalehkhalili.bsky.social & @AdhamSaouli for their fantastic constructive feedback!

"Mr. el-Sisi will win next week’s election. But with Egypt facing severe challenges on multiple fronts, it could well be a poisoned chalice," my oped in the Globe and Mail tgam.ca/4a8Z58

My piece in The Times In the past decade, Sisi made Egyptians poorer, their state more economically fragile, their courts more compromised, their police more repressive & their country geopolitically weaker. Worse yet, he won’t acknowledge he’s done anything wrong www.thetimes.co.uk/article/debt...

Sisi’s election victory is assured — what does it mean for Egypt?

Timothy Kaldas, deputy director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, explains how a president who has wrecked the economy and is increasingly unpopular will win

thetimes.co.uk

The Midwest Workshop in Empirical Political Science (MWEPS) is now accepting applications for its Spring 2024 meeting! The 11th meeting of MWEPS will be held in-person at the Department of Political Science at Penn State on Friday, March 29, 2024. Link: t.co/wUT0IFuw6h

payback for every grad student that has to read Foucault

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3y ago

Krispy Kreme opens in Paris. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/b... (🎁 link)

Middle East scholars afraid to speak out - our new survey shows widespread self-censorship, intense pressures, and feeling abandoned by campus administrators. My new piece with Shibley Telhami in the Chronicle of Higher Education abuaardvark.substack.com/p/gaza-and-a...

Gaza and Academic Self-Censorship

Our new Chronicle essay reveals eye-opening results from the new Middle East Scholars Barometer survey.

abuaardvark.substack.com

🚨Looking for a comprehensive guide to research methods? 🚨Check out my playlist on Interviews! 👉 tinyurl.com/256fmwjw #middleEast #menaSky #MENAstudies #MiddleEastStudies

Cultural landmarks destroyed in Gaza

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/w...

Freed Palestinians Were Mostly Young and Not Convicted of Crimes

Israel has released a total of 240 Palestinian prisoners and detainees during a weeklong pause in hostilities.

nytimes.com

To members of the Middle East Politics section of the APSA: Please note that nominations for our 4 major awards are due by January 1, 2024! Awards are for Best Book, Best Article, Best Dissertation, and Best APSA Paper. Please log on to Apsanet for the details and good luck!

Gave cats a second round of treats today. Huge mistake. Huge. It’s like the french revolution in here

Knocked them down seconds after the pic.. he knows Bukowski’s novel is mediocre at best

A doctor from the Palestinian health ministry described Gaza's largest hospital to me as “in the circle of death." Another doctor, trapped inside Dar al-Shifa hospital, said over 110 corpses are in the hospital grounds, with no way to retrieve them and people trying to flee coming under fire.

‘In the circle of death’: Gaza doctors say patients are under siege in al-Shifa

Staff say they fear rising numbers of deaths at hospital on third day without power, and with shooting and bombing outside

theguardian.com

"Less intrusive" ماشى يا خويا

Erin A. Snider@erinsnider.bsky.social · 3y ago

Biden with some thoughts and prayers this afternoon: “My hope and expectation is that there will be less intrusive action relative to hospitals,” Mr. Biden told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if he had expressed concerns to Israel."

For those who know the stories from Gaza Hospital in Beirut in 1982, this is particularly devastating.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3y ago

A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD *REMEMBER US* (Source: Doctors Without Borders)

The roundtable, edited by@rbkhoury.bsky.social and @seanyom.bsky.social, offers a dynamic discussion on the principles of conflict research in MENA. Featuring five outstanding scholars Anne Irfan, Kevin Mazur, @separkinson.bsky.social, @philbrickyadav.bsky.social, and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

The second symposium features eight articles, that are as enlightening as they are engaging, on left-wing politics! Kudos to editors Francesco Cavatora & Gamze Çavdar & authors Idriss Jebari, Sune Haugbolle, @wazirelkif.bsky.social, Siavush Randjbar, Sevgi Adak, Avraham Shilon, Khalil Dahbi!

APSA MENA Politics Section@apsamena.bsky.social · 3y ago

Had a chance to take a look at the Fall issue of the newsletter yet? The 2nd symposium on left-wing politics in the region is jam-packed with 8 (!) contributions. Eds. Francesco Cavatora & Gamze Çavdar brought together contributions on Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, & broader regional reflections.

Our first symposium digs in state engineering of judicial politics. It features a stellar lineup of contributions by Mona El-Ghobashy, Alon Yaktar, Lina Khatib, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, and @rola-husseini.bsky.social. Special thanks to the editors Lihi Ben Shitrit and Gamze Çavdar!

APSA MENA Politics Section@apsamena.bsky.social · 3y ago

The first symposium in this issue is on judicial politics and state control. In it, Mona El-Ghobashy, Alon Yaktar, Lina Khatib, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari & @rola-husseini.bsky.social focus particularly on gendered aspects of this in Egypt, Israel, Lebanon. Thx to eds. Lihi Ben Shitrit & Gamze Çavdar!

Lisa Anderson's stand-alone essay provides practical guidance for conducting relevant and meaningful research in the region. For further guidance on ethical fieldwork, be sure to check the valuable resources from REMENA @Middle East Institute at Columbia University

APSA MENA Politics Section@apsamena.bsky.social · 3y ago

Kicking off the issue, Lisa Anderson's essay on ongoing intricacies & challenges of conducting fieldwork in the MENA. Read it to learn more the REMENA project & its valuable guidance on how to conduct meaningful research while prioritizing safety and integrity. menasky polisky

Our latest issue of APSA-MENA Politics is out! Check out stand-alone article on conducting ethical fieldwork, thought-provoking symposiums on judicial politics, state control, and left-wing politics in the region, and engaging new roundtable discussion!

APSA MENA Politics Section@apsamena.bsky.social · 3y ago

The APSA MENA Politics Section's Fall newsletter is out! Editors @seanyom.bsky.social Nermin Allam & Gamze Çavdar (Bluesky-less, is that what we're calling it?) & board put together a fantastic issue. See the full issue below, & follow along here for more on this packed issue! polisky menasky