POMEPS - MENA Politics Reception at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting - Project on Middle East Political Science

Please join us for the POMEPS – MENA Politics Reception at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA! The reception will take place on Friday, September 4th, 2026 from 7:30 pm to 9 pm at the Hynes Co...

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York University Call for Contributors: Cooperation and Conflict Special Issue Proposal (2028) - Project on Middle East Political Science

You are invited to contribute to a special issue of Cooperation and Conflict, scheduled for publication in December 2028.  The proposed issue, “Cartographies of Dispossession: War, Statecraft, and Int...

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York University Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Kurdish Diaspora - Project on Middle East Political Science

The Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security (JCTS) is currently inviting submissions for an upcoming special issue titled “The Kurdish Diaspora: Transnational Agency in Conflict Transformation...

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York University Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Kin: The Impact of Political Narratives on Family Histories" - Project on Middle East Political Science

You are invited to contribute to a forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Genealogy, titled “Kin: The Impact of Political Narratives on Family Histories.” Mainstream genealogical research frequently...

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Issue 21 of Al-Muntaqa Now Available - Project on Middle East Political Science

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 21 (January/February 2026) of the peer-reviewed English language journal Al-Muntaqa: Ne...

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Betrayal of the Homeland (S. 15, Ep. 15) - Project on Middle East Political Science

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Samer Abboud of Villanova University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his book, Betrayal of the Homeland: Disloyal Subjects in Wartime Syria. In the book, Abboud argu...

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Job Posting: "MECAM Publication Manager / Postdoc Research Fellow" - Project on Middle East Political Science

The GIGA seeks to appoint a MECAM Publication Manager / Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) Applications are invited for an 80% position, with a contract until 28 February 2029, starting 1 October 20...

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Securing South Lebanon? - Project on Middle East Political Science

Kelly Stedem, Bucknell University   In November 2024, Israel launched a devastating surprise attack on Hizbullah which killed many of its top leaders. Many commentators argued that this attack represe...

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Bureaucratic Entrenchment and Educating Yemen’s Next Generation - Project on Middle East Political Science

Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges   As Yemen enters its second decade of war, analysis of the everyday provision of education offers a surprisingly useful lens for exploring qu...

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Iran and the Bomb (S. 15, Ep. 14) - Project on Middle East Political Science

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Sina Azodi of the George Washington University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his book, Iran and the Bomb: The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question. The bo...

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Deft Diplomacy: How Oman Thrives amid Turbulence - Project on Middle East Political Science

Tyler B. Parker, Mercer University The Sultanate of Oman ensures its survival through an independent foreign policy that is neither formally allied, functionally dependent, nor factually neutral. By a...

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Syria’s New Security Entrepreneurs - Project on Middle East Political Science

Samer Abboud, Villanova University When Syrian Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri declared the formation of a new military unit called the “National Guard” (al-Haras al-Watani) in August 2025 to protect the...

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POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East - Project on Middle East Political Science

In the context of the current US and Israeli wars on Iran (and Lebanon) and during what appears to be the eclipse of US primacy, we brought together a group of scholars with expertise on the “weak” st...

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Small States, Protection, and US Bases - Project on Middle East Political Science

Pete Moore, Case Western Reserve University   The February 28, 2026 American and Israeli attack on Iran has demonstrated the power as well as the peril of US military bases in the Middle East. On the ...

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The End of Hedging? Kuwaiti Foreign Policy in the Presence of America First and in the Absence of Parliament - Project on Middle East Political Science

Courtney Freer, Emory University Kuwaiti foreign policy was for decades constrained by the presence of the Gulf’s most vocal and powerful legislature.[1] Since May 2024, however, that legislature has ...

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The Shirking Hegemon: Authority and Insecurity in Trump’s Middle East - Project on Middle East Political Science

Sean Yom, Temple University US foreign policy during President Trump’s second term has subverted the strategy of weak and vulnerable states when contracting with the US as a hegemonic power through a ...

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POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East - Project on Middle East Political Science

In the context of the current US and Israeli wars on Iran (and Lebanon) and during what appears to be the eclipse of US primacy, we brought together a group of scholars with expertise on the “weak” st...

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Ba‘thist Iraq through Archives (S. 15, Ep. 13) - Project on Middle East Political Science

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Samuel Helfont of the Naval War College at the Naval Postgraduate School joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new edited volume, Ba‘thist Iraq through Archives: Refle...

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Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq (S. 15, Ep. 12) - Project on Middle East Political Science

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Kali Rubaii of Purdue University joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq. The book expands the temporal and de...

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MENA Writing Solidarity Zoom Group - Project on Middle East Political Science

Professor Lisel Hintz of Johns Hopkins University started this group soon after the February 2023 earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as a post-disaster solidarity community to help students and scholars ...

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2027 Annual Palestine Forum: Call for Submissions - Project on Middle East Political Science

Following the success of the previous four rounds, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Institute for Palestine Studies are pleased to invite research proposals for the fourth Annua...

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Force Without Authority (S. 15, Ep. 11) - Project on Middle East Political Science

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Jason Brownlee of University of Austin-Texas joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Force Without Authority: America’s Wars in the Middle East and South Asia....

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Civilian Support for Coups and Post-Coup Buyer’s Remorse in the Sahel - Project on Middle East Political Science

Salah Ben Hammou, Ph.D., Rice University Jonathan Powell, Ph.D., Campbellsville University   Between 2020 and 2025, the world watched as military coups swept across the Sahel, with soldiers turning th...

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Explaining Pro-Democratic Mobilization in North Africa and the Sahel - Project on Middle East Political Science

Md Maniruzzaman Mamun, University of Florida   Mark Beissinger argues that urban civic revolutions often unite diverse participants through shared anger at corruption, economic hardship, and abusive r...

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Areas of Operations: A new methodology for tracking the geography of armed group activity - Project on Middle East Political Science

David Russell, University of Florida   In 2016, the Islamic State’s Libya Province (ISLP) operated throughout the country, recording incidents of political violence in 11 of Libya’s 22 districts and b...

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From Minoritized to Indigenous: Imazighen and the Global Indigeneity Movement - Project on Middle East Political Science

Brahim El Guabli, Johns Hopkins University    Since the independence of Tamazghan (broader North African) nation states from France in the mind-1950s and the early 1960s, Imazighen (sing. Amazigh), th...

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The Gen Z Youth Protests and the Rising King dilemma in Morocco - Project on Middle East Political Science

Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City University   In late September 2025, Morocco witnessed an intense wave of youth-led unrest in years. What began as an eruption of local frustration over failing public ...

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State exclusion and mobilization in Morocco’s Rif region: the case of cannabis cultivation - Project on Middle East Political Science

Alexandra Blackman, Cornell University   In 2021, the Moroccan parliament approved Law 13–21, which legalized the cultivation of cannabis for medical, pharmaceutical, and industrial purposes while mai...

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The Struggle to Breathe: The Evolution and Legacies of Environmental Social Movements in Gabès - Project on Middle East Political Science

Mariam Ben Slama, Johns Hopkins University   “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, abov...

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Gendering the study of state authority/power in the MENA region: The Case of the Tunisian Feminist Movement 2011-2021 - Project on Middle East Political Science

Hind Ahmed Zaki, University of Connecticut   It was a rainy day in Tunis in January 2014. Iit had been pouring for hours as I made my way to the office of Bouchra Bel Haj Hamida, a civil rights lawyer...

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