POMEPS Middle East Podcasts
Marc Lynch
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Project on Middle East Political Science
Subscribe to the POMEPS Conversations podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or follow us on SoundCloud.

POMEPS Conversations is a series of short conversations between POMEPS Director Marc Lynch and prominent scholars in the field. Conversations cover a wide range of topics: issues specific to political science, the politics of particular countries in which scholars have expertise, or recently published works. These conversations were originally video recording and beginning in 2016, are now audio-only podcasts. We hope that this will become a useful and important archive of the constantly evolving field of political science and the Middle East.

289. Zachary Lockman, April 18, 2024: Field Notes

285. Courtney Freer, April 11, 2024: The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait

284. Sami Hermez, April 4, 2024: My Brother, My Land

283. Alexander Cooley, March 21, 2024: The Political Science of the Middle East and The Uprisings of Gaza

282. Marika Sosnowski, March 15, 2024: Redefining Ceasefres

281. Max Gallien, February 29, 2024: Smugglers and States

280. Cinzia Bianco, February 22, 2044: The Gulf monarchies after the Arab Spring

279. Sharan Grewal, February 16, 2024: Soldiers of Democracy?

278. Maged Mandour, February 8, 2024: Egypt Under El-Sisi

277. Brahim El Guabli, February 1, 2024: Moroccan Other-Archives

276. Adam Shatz, January 25, 2024: The Rebel’s Clinic

275. Anita Gohdes, January 18, 2024: Repression in the Digital Age

274. Shibley Telhami, December 7, 2023: Middle East Scholar Barometer

273. Sarah Parkinson, November 30, 2023: The Ghosts of Lebanon, It’s Just How Things are Done, & Unreported Realities

272. Anne Irfan, November 11, 2023: Refuge and Resistance

271. Sumita Pahwa, November 3, 2023: Politics as Workshop

270. Sarah El-Kazaz, October 26, 2023: Politics in the Crevices

269. Sofia Fenner, Kristian Ulrichsen, October 19, 2023: Shouting in a Cage & Saudi Arabia and the GCC

268. Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Imad Alsoos, October 12, 2023: Good Rebel Governance & Hamas and Gaza

267. Toby Matthiesen, Lisa Anderson, October 5, 2023: The Caliph and The Imam & REMENA

266. Ora Szekely, Wendy Pearlman, September 28, 2023: Syria Divided & Perspectives on Politics

265. Thomas Serres, Lisel Hintz, September 21, 2023: The Suspended Disaster & Turkey/Syria Zoom

264. Alice Wilson, Marsin Alshamary, Sajad Jiyad, Fanar Haddad, September 14, 2023: Afterlives of Revolution & Shia Power

263. Robert Kubinec, Ansar Jasim, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Amir Mahdavi, Ameni Mehrez, September 2, 2023: Making Democracy Safe for Business & APSA Virtual Posters

262. Rabab El Mahdi, Janine Clark, Laryssa Chomiak, Rima Majed, Dahlia Scheindlin, Yael Berda, June 20, 2023: Research Ethics and Israel’s Annexation of the West Bank

261. Noora Lori, Rima Majed, Wendy Pearlman, Curtis Ryan, Andre Bank, Nathan Brown, Steven Brooke, June 8, 2023: POMEPS 14th Annual Conference

260. Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Gregory Gause, Waleed Hazbun, Sarah Bush, May 25, 2023: Yemen in the Shadow of Transition and the End of American Primacy

259. Osman Balkan, Sahar Aziz, May 11, 2023: Dying Abroad and The Racial Muslim

258. Sebnem Gumuscu, Lisel Hintz, May 5, 2023: Democracy or Authoritarianism & Upcoming Turkish Elections

257. Samuel Helfont, Khalid Mustafa, April 28, 2023: Iraq Against the World and Developments in Sudan

256. Rita Stephan, Mai Hassan, April 20, 2023: COVID and Gender in the Middle East & Sudan’s Civil War Crisis

255. David Roberts, Jeroen Gunning, April 6, 2023: Security Politics & Beirut’s Southern Suburbs

254. Sarah Bush, Marsin Alshamary, March 30, 2023: Monitors and Meddlers and The Collective Neglect of Southern Iraq

253. Dawn Murphy, Houda Mzioudet, March 23, 2023: China’s Rise in the Global South and Anti-Blackness and Identity in Tunisia

252. David Wight, Simon Mabon, March 17, 2023: Oil Money and The Struggle for Supremacy

251. Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Killian Clarke, Shreya Parikh, March 3, 2023: Popular Politics, Ambivalent Allies, and Making Tunisia non-African

250. Andrew Simon, Hasret Dikici Bilgin, Lisel Hintz, Rana Khoury, at Urbana-Champagne, and Reva Dhingra, February 23, 2023: Media of the Masses and Turkey/Syria Earthquake Relief

249.Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown , Marc Lynch, Shibley Telham, February 16, 2022: The One State Reality

248. Rima Majed , Jeffery G Karam, Sana Tannoury, Grace Khawam, Sara Mourad, Moné Makkawi, Roland Riachi, and Lama Karamé, February 9, 2023: The Lebanon Uprising of 2019

247. David Siddhartha Patel, Jessica Barnes, February 2, 2023: Order Out of Chaos and Staple Security

246. Lisa Hajjar, Yezid Sayigh, January 29, 2023: The War in Court and the Egyptian Economy

245. Sarah Parkinson, Wendy Pearlman, January 19, 2023: Beyond the Lines and Emotional Sensibility

244. Tobias Zumbragel, Nermin Allam, December 8, 2022: Political Power & Environmental Sustainability, The Afterlife Goes On, Political Economy

243. Munira Khayyat, Neil Ketchley, Chris Barrie, Killian Clark, December 1, 2022: A Landscape of War & Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings

242. Alexei Abrahams, Yara Asi, Dana El Kurd, Diana Greenwald, Catherine Herrold, Wendy Pearlman, November 17, 2022: Middle East Law and Governance: Palestine Symposium

241. Dalia Ghanem, Sammy Badran, November 10, 2022: Competitive Authoritarianism in Algeria & Demobilization in Morocco

240. Aaron Rock-Singer, Rana Khoury, Lindsay Benstead, November 3, 2022: In the Shade of the Sunna, Migration After the Arab Uprisings, & Female Electability

239. Jessica Watkins, Killian Clarke, Jeannie Sowers, October 27, 2022: Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order, Protests, & Environmental Politics in Egypt

238. Marc Owen Jones, Andre Bank, October 20, 2022: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Authoritarian Adaptation

237. Hesham Sallam, Jeff Colgan, Ora Szekely and Devorah Manekin, October 13, 2022: Classless Politics, OPEC+ Oil Politics, & Political Violence

236. Nazanin Shahrokni, Tarek Masoud, Michael Robbins, October 6, 2022: Women in Place, the Study of Islam, & Attitudes Across the MENA

235. Michael Christopher Low, Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Sarah El-Kazaz and Lana Salman, September 29, 2022: Imperial Mecca, Protests in Iran, & Local Politics

234. Maya Mikdashi, Gregory Gause, Curtis Ryan, and Waleed Hazbun, September 22, 2022: Sectarianism in Lebanon & the U.S.’s Changing Role in the Middle East

233. Jillian Schwedler and Sean Yom, Bassel Salloukh and Alexandra Siegel, Michael Robbins, September 15, 2022: The Political Science of the Middle East, Identity & Sectarianism, Public Opinion

232. José Ciro Martínez, Jessica Barnes, May 26, 2022: States of Subsistence & the Politics of Bread in Egypt

231. Megan Brown, Sami Atallah, Cinzia Bianco, May 19, 2022: Seventh Member State, Lebanese Elections, Succession of Mohamed bin Zayed

230. Mariam Salehi, Jeannie Sowers, May 12, 2022: Transitional Justice in Process and Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

229. Jannis Julien Grimm, Marwa Fatafta, Thanassis Cambanis, May 5, 2022: Contested Legitimacies, Digital Authoritarianism, Century International

228. Jillian Schwedler, Deen Sharp, Ali Kadivar, April 28, 2022: Protesting Jordan, Climate Change in the Gulf, and Social Development in Iran

227. Michael Provence, Gamze Cavdar, and Shibley Telhami, April 21, 2022: The Last Ottoman Generation, Why Women Support Conservative Parties, Middle East Scholar Barometer

226. Erin Snider, Steven Brooke and Elizabeth Nugent, Mai El-Sadany, April 14, 2022: Marketing Democracy, Who Votes After a Coup, and Egyptian Prisoners

225. Ora Szekely and Peter Krause, Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Hadil al-Mowafak, April 7, 2022: Stories from the Field, Political Budget Cycles in Autocracies, Yemen Ceasefire

224. Andrea Wright, Basileus Zeno, Renad Mansour, March 31, 2022: Between Dreams and Ghosts, The Making of Sects, Iraqi Government Formation

223. Hatim El-Hibri, Kevin Koehler, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, March 24, 2022: Visions of Beirut, Who Fakes Support for the Military, US-Gulf Tensions

222. Pouya Alimagham, Nate Grubman, Valeria Resta, March 10, 2022: Contesting the Iranian Revolution, A Dictator’s Day in Court, and The Myth of Moderation

221. James Shires, Cinzia Bianco, Howard Eissenstat, March 3, 2022: Cybersecurity in the Middle East, Gulf States’ and Turkey’s Response to the Ukraine Crisis

220. Jill Jarvis, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl and Kevin Koehler, Sean Yom and Wael Al-Khatib, February 24, 2022: Decolonizing Memory, COVID-19 in MENA, Democratic Reform in Jordan

219. Michael Hoffman, Devorah Manekin and Tamar Mitts, Gregory Gause, February 17, 2022: Faith in Numbers, Effective for Whom?, and U.S. Relations in the Gulf

218. Jeff Colgan, Safa Al-Saeedi, Bassel Salloukh, February 10, 2022: Partial Hegemony, The Arab Spring, and Lebanon’s Ongoing Political Crisis

217. John Nagle and Tamirace Fakhoury, Reva Dhingra, Dana el-Kurd, February 3, 2022: Queer Activism in Lebanon, Refugee Aid in Jordan, and East Jerusalem

216. Eskandar Sadeghi, Adélie Chevée, Mohamed Dhia-Hammami, January 27, 2022: Reform in Iran, Syrian Identity, and Politics in Tunisia

215. Asef Bayat, Maro Youssef, Thomas Juneau, January 20, 2022: Revolutionary Life, Unlikely Feminist Coalitions, and the Houthi Movement

214. Nadya Hajj, David Steinberg, Thomas Serres, January 13, 2022: Networked Refugees, Currency Crises, and Algeria’s Hirak Movement

213. Abdelmajid Hannoum, Hannes Baumann, Ammar Shamailah, December 16, 2021: The Invention of the Maghreb, Avatars of Eurocentrism, and the Syrian Regime

212. Khalid Medani, Kristen Kao, Jonathan Fulton, December 9, 2021: Black Markets and Militants, To Punish or to Pardon, and China’s Relations with the Gulf Monarchies

211. Shamiran Mako and Valentine Moghadam, Salma Mousa and William Marble, Mai Hassan, December 2, 2021: After the Arab Uprisings, Islamophobic Behaviors, and Sudan’s Civil Resistance

210. Nils Hagerdal, Emily Scott, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, November 18, 2021: Militia Intelligence and Ethnic Violence, Politics of Humanitarian Threat Perception, Iranian Economy

209. Nathan Brown, Daniel Neep, Wolfram Lacher, November 11, 2021: Egypt in the Modern Era, Why History Matters, & Libya’s Upcoming Elections

208. Amelie Le Renard, Shamiran Mako, Peter Salisbury, November 4, 2021: Western Privilege, Subverting Peace, and After al-Bayda

207. Dana Moss, Wendy Pearlman, Salah Ben Hammou, October 28, 2021: The Arab Spring Abroad, The Syrian Uprising, and Sudan’s Transitional Crisis

206. Nicholas Danforth, Lucy Abbott, Kristian Ulrichsen, October 21, 2021: The Remaking of Republican Turkey, Entrusted Norms, and the GCC Reconciliation

205. Raphael Lefevre, Sarah Parkinson, Mohamed Daadaoui, October 14, 2021: Jihad in the City, (Dis)courtesy Bias, and Morocco’s Election

204. Benjamin Smith, Kevan Harris, Marsin Alshamary, October 7, 2021: Rethinking the Resource Curse, Ethno-Racial Identity in Iran, and Iraqi Elections

203. Raffaella Del Sarto, Lucia Ardovini, Toby Dodge, September 30, 2021: Borderlands, Re-Thinking the Tanzim, and Iraqi Elections

202. Zaid al-Ali, Marsin Alshamary, James Shires, September 23, 2021: Arab Constitutionalism, Religious Peacebuilding in Iraq, & Digital Authoritarianism

201. Kevin Mazur, Faten Ghosn, Heiko Wimmen, September 16, 2021: Revolution in Syria, The Journey Home, and Lebanon’s Banking Crisis

200. Mona El Ghobashy, Killian Clarke, Laryssa Chomiak, September 9, 2021: Bread and Freedom, Which Protests Count, and Recent Political Developments in Tunisia

199. Omar Dewachi, Mona Harb, Sarah El-Kazaz, Pascal Menoret, Farah al-Nakib, Lana Salman, June 24, 2021; POMEPS 12th Annual Conference Part 2

198. Nermin Allam, Mert Arslanalp, Laryssa Chomiak, Jannis Julien Grimm, Sarah Parkinson, June 17, 2021: POMEPS 12th Annual Conference Part 1

197. Maha Nassar, Ian Lustick, June 3, 2021: Brothers Apart and Paradigm Lost

196. Omar Ashour, Max Gallien, Aytuğ Şaşmaz, May 27, 2021: How ISIS Fights, Informal Institutions and the Regulation of Smuggling in North Africa, and Navigating Welfare Regimes in Divided Societies

195. POMEPS Podcast Special, May 20, 2021: Israel/Palestine: Crisis in the One-State Reality

194. Nicola Pratt, André Bank, Jan Busse, May 13, 2021: Embodying Geopolitics & MENA Political Science Research a Decade After the Arab Uprisings

193. Paola Rivetti, Alexandra Siegel, Konstantin Ash, May 6, 2021:Political Participation in Iran, Tweeting Beyond Tahrir, and How did Tunisians react to Ennahdha’s 2016 reforms?

192. Ewan Stein, Steven Schaaf, Zahra Ali, April 29, 2021: International Relations in the Middle East, Resisting Authoritarian States in the Middle East, and Protest Movements in Iraq

191. Jesse Wozniak, Alexei Abrahams, Adam Lichtenheld, April 22, 2021: Policing Iraq, Hard Traveling, and Consequences of Internal Displacement

190. John Waterbury, Irene Weipert-Fenner, Mariam Salehi, April 15, 2021: Missions Impossible, Go Local Go Global, and Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much?

189. Stephanie Dornschneider, Matthew Lacouture, Maria Josua, April 8, 2021: Protest Behavior During the Arab Spring, Protest & Moral Economy in Jordan, Arab Uprisings & Return of Repression

188. Emy Matesan, Giulia Cimini, Jana Belschner, April 1, 2021: The Violence Pendulum, Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement, and Strong Quotas/Weak Parties in Tunisia

187. Somdeep Sen, Lisel Hintz, Michaelle Browers, March 25, 2021: Decolonizing Palestine, The Empire’s Opposition Strikes Back, and Beginnings, Continuities and Revivals

186. Justin Schon, Tarek Masoud, Justin Gengler, March 18, 2021: Surviving the War in Syria, The Arab Spring at 10, and Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World

185. Marc Owen Jones, Drew Kinney, Chad Raymond, March 11, 2021: Political Repression in Bahrain, Sharing Saddles, and Old Wine in a New Bottle

184. Devorah Manekin, Jeannie Sowers, Joshua Freedman, March 4, 2021: Violence & Restraint in the 2nd Intifada, Humanitarian Challenges in the Yemen War, & Negotiating Identity in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

183. Dara Conduit, Marwa Shalaby, Bozena Welborne, February 25, 2021: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Women in Legislative Committees, and Women Running as Independent Candidates

182. Robert Springborg, May Darwich, Waleed Hazbun, Adham Saouli, Karim Makdisi, February 18, 2021: Political Economies of MENA & Politics of Teaching IR in the Arab World

181. Avital Livny, Ala’ Alrababa’h, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, February 11, 2021: Trust and the Islamic Advantage, Attitudes Towards Migrants, and On-Side Fighting in Civil War

180. Glenn Robinson, Dina Bishara, Sarah E. Parkinson, February 4, 2021: Global Jihad, Precarious Collective Action, and Practical Ideology in Militant Organizations

179. Ahmed Khanani, Kaoutar Ghilani, Chantal Berman, January 27, 2021: A Morroco Special Focus: Moroccan Islamism, Language Politics in Morocco, & Policing the Organizational Threat in Morocco

178. Aaron Rock-Singer, Bassel Salloukh, Carolyn Barnett, January 21, 2021: Practicing Islam in Egypt, Consociational Power‐Sharing, and Women’s Segmented Empowerment in Jordan

177. Alex Thurston, Michael Robbins, Christiana Parreira, January 14, 2021: Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel, the Arab Barometer, and Power Politics in Baghdad

176. Kelsey Norman, Gail Buttorff, Samer Abboud, January 7, 2021: Reluctant Reception, COVID-19 Challenges in MENA Research, and Ending Insecurities in the MENA

175. Aaron Jakes, November 19, 2020: Egypt’s Occupation

174. Joas Wagemakers, November 12, 2020: The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

173. Sherine Hafez, November 5, 2020: Women of the Midan

172. Elizabeth Nugent, October 29, 2020: After Repression

171. Anne Marie Baylouny, October 22, 2020: When Blame Backfires

170. Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, October 15, 2020: Quagmire in Civil War

169. Hiba Bou Akar, October 8, 2020: For the Yet to Come

168. Nadav Shelef, October 1, 2020: Homelands

167. Aili Tripp, September 24, 2020: Seeking Legitimacy

166. Amr Adly, September 17, 2020: Cleft Capitalism

165. Pascal Menoret, September 10, 2020: Graveyard of Clerics

164. Laleh Khalili, September 3, 2020: Sinews of War and Trade

163. Catherine Herrold, June 12, 2020: Delta Democracy

162. Fanar Haddad, June 5, 2020: Understanding ‘Sectarianism’

161. Samuel Helfont, May 29, 2020: Compulsion in Religion

160. Sara Pursley, May 22, 2020: Familiar Futures

159. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, May 15, 2020: Qatar and the Gulf Crisis

158. Noah Salomon, May 8, 2020: For Love of the Prophet

157. Steven Brooke, April 30, 2020: Winning Hearts and Votes

156. Salwa Ismail, April 24, 2020: The Rule of Violence

155. Ceren Lord, April 17, 2020: Religious Politics in Turkey

154. Omar Dewachi, April 10, 2020: Ungovernable Life

153. Daniel Nexon, April 3, 2020: Exit from Hegemony

152. Jim Krane, March 27, 2020: Energy Kingdoms

151. Thomas Hegghammer, March 20, 2020: The Rise of Global Jihad

150. Mark C. Thompson, March 13, 2020: Identity and Politics in a Globalized Saudi Arabia

149. Wolfram Lacher, March 6, 2020: Libya’s Fragmentation

148. Yael Zeira, February 28, 2020: The Revolution Within

147. Jonathan Fulton, February 21, 2020: China’s Relations with the Gulf Monarchies

146. Simon Mabon, February 14, 2020: Houses Built on Sand

145. Aaron Zelin, February 7, 2020: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad

144. May Darwich, January 31, 2020: Threats and Alliances in the Middle East

143. Narges Bajoghli, January 24, 2020: Iran Reframed

142. Shiraz Maher, April 4, 2019: Salafi-Jihadism

141. Ariel I. Ahram, March 25, 2019: Separatism and the Reshaping of the Middle East

140. Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili, February 21, 2019: Israel and Nonstate Actors

139. Ziya Meral, February 4, 2019: How Violence Shapes Religion

138. Thomas Hegghammer, January 28, 2019: Violent Islamism

137. Jessie Moritz, November 7, 2018: Oil and Societal Quiescence

136. Jason Brownlee, November 2, 2018: U.S. Interventionism in the Middle East

135. Janine Clark, October 19, 2018: Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco

134. Michael Herb, October 16, 2018: The Wages of Oil

133. Curtis Ryan, October 3, 2018: Jordan and the Arab Uprisings

132. Lisel Hintz, September 17, 2018: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey

131. Nermin Allam, September 10, 2018: Women and the Egyptian Revolution

130. Ann Marie Wainscott, May 9, 2018: Bureaucratizing Islam

129. Frederic Wehrey, April 25, 2018: Burning Shores

128. Julie Chernov Hwang, April 16, 2018: Why Terrorists Quit

127. Asef Bayat, April 9, 2018: Revolution Without Revolutionaries

126. Calvert W. Jones, April 2, 2018: Bedouins into Bourgeois

125. Gershon Shafir, March 22, 2018: A Half Century of Occupation

124. Joas Wagemakers, February 26, 2018: Salafism in Jordan

123. Quinn Mecham, February 7, 2018: Islamist Political Mobilization

122. Fatima El-Issawi, January 22, 2018: The Arab National Media

121. Elisabeth Kendall, December 18, 2017: Jihadist Poetry

120. Alexander Thurston, December 11, 2017: Boko Haram

119. Lauren Louër, December 4, 2017: Shia Islamic Movements

118. Susanne Dahlgren, November 28, 2017: Politics in South Yemen

117. Nadya S. Hajj, November 20, 2017: The Creation of Property Rights in Palestinian Refugee Camps

116. Toby Matthiesen, November 6, 2017: Sectarianism in the Gulf

115. Kevan Harris, October 23, 2017: Politics and the Welfare State

114. Aisha Ahmad, October 16, 2017: Black Markets and Islamist Power

113. Wendy Pearlman, October 9, 2017: Voices from Syria

112. Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, September 25, 2017: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons

111. Carter Malkasian, September 18, 2017: Conflict in Iraq

110. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, September 11, 2017: The Gulf Crisis

109 Caitlin Talmadge, July 10, 2017: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes

108. Neil Ketchley, July 3, 2017: Egypt in a Time of Revolution

107. Cemil Aydin, June 26, 2017: The Idea of the Muslim World

106. Steven Cook, May 30, 1017: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East

105. M. Ali Kadivar, May 15, 2017: Iran’s Elections

104. Peter Krause, May 9, 2017: National Movements in the Middle East

103. Nadia Marzouki, May 4, 2017, Islam in America

102. Lisel Hintz, April 19, 2017, Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum

101. Mohammed M. Hafez, April 10, 2017: Islamist Movements

100. Ora Szekely, April 3, 2017: Politics of Militant Group Survival

99. Lihi Ben Shitrit, March 27, 2017: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right

98. Afshon Ostovar, March 20, 2017: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

97. Chris Phillips, February 27, 2017: International Politics in Syria

96. Colin Kahl, February 20, 2017: Obama’s Foreign Policy

95. Asli Ü. Bâli, February 13, 2017: Constitution Drafting

94. Michael Farquhar, February 6, 2017: Saudia Arabia’s influence

93. Nader Hashemi, Jan. 30, 2017: Iran Today

92. Merouan Mekouar, December 6, 2016: Protest and Mass Mobilization

91. Marwan Kraidy, November 29, 2016: Creativity and the Arab Uprisings

90. Walter Armbrust, November 22, 2016: Pop Culture and Egypt

89. Nathan Brown, November 16, 2016: Arguing Islam after the Revival of Arab Politics:

88. A. Kadir Yildirim, October 18, 2016: The Politics of Islamist Parties

87. Adria Lawrence, Oct. 11, 2016: Morocco’s Elections

86. David Patel, October 3, 2016: Boarders in the Middle East

85. Salim Yaqub, Sept. 26, 2016: Americans and Arabs in the 1970s

84. Diana Greenwald, Sept. 19, 2016: Postponed Palestinian Elections

83. Curtis Ryan, Sept. 16, 2016: Jordan’s Elections

82. Raymond Hinnebusch, August 29, 2016, Sectarian Dangers in the Middle East

81. Kevin Koehler, August 22, 2016, The role of militaries in Middle East

80. Monica Marks, August 15, 2016, Tunisia’s Ennahdha Party

79. André Bank, August 8, 2016, Jordanians on Syrian Refugees

78. Wendy Pearlman, August 1, 2016, Interviewing Displaced Syrians

77. Bassel Salloukh, July 25, 2016, New Forms of Sectarianism

76. Daniel Corstange, July 18, 2016, What We Can Learn from Syrian Refugees

75. Pete Moore, July 11, 2016, Political Economy & Refugees in Jordan

74. Sune Haugbølle, July 5, 2016: Leftist Groups in Middle East Political Science

73. Vickie Langohr, June 27, 2016: Sexual Harassment in Egypt

72. Reinoud Leenders, June 20, 2016: The Origins of Syria’s Crisis

71. Charles Kurzman, June 13, 2016: Iranian Revolution, Arab Uprisings, Mobilizations

70. Greg Gause, June 6, 2016: Saudi Arabia’s New Challenges

69. Kristin Fabbe, May 31, 2016: Crisis in Turkey

68. Rory McCarthy, Oxford University, May 23, 2016: Tunisia’s Ennadha party

67. Steffen Hertog, LSE, May 16, 2016: GCC economics.

66. Bessma Momani, University of Waterloo, May 9, 2016: Arab youth

65. Zaid al Ali, Princeton University, May 2, 2016: Constitutional drafting process in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Uprisings.

64. Marwa Shalaby, Rice University, April 25, 2016: Status of women in politics in the Middle East.

63. Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Harvard University, April 18, 2016: War in Syria.

62. Erin Snider, Texas A&M University, April 11, 2016: Political economy of foreign aid in the Middle East.

61. Hind Ahmed Zaki, University of Washington, April 4, 2016: Women’s rights movements after the Uprisings.

60. Amaney Jamal, Princeton University, March 28, 2016: Future of political science in the Middle East.

59. Merouan Mekouar, York University, March 21, 2016: Morocco after the Uprisings.

58. Justin Gengler, Qatar University, March 14, 2016: Bahrain after the Uprisings.

57. Steven Brooke, Harvard University, March 10, 2016: Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

56. Sean L. Yom, Temple University, March 3, 2016: From Resilience to Revolution.

55. Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest University, February 25, 2016: New Middle East intellectuals.

54. Jillian Schwedler. Hunter College, CUNY, February 18, 2016: Effects of the Arab Uprising in Jordan.

53. Hesham Sallam, Stanford University, February 11, 2016: Egyptian revolution.

52. Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, February 4, 2016: Civil war in Yemen.

51.Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State University, January 28, 2016: Gender and quotas in Middle East elections.

50. Michael Wahid Hanna & Thanassis Cambanis, The Century Foundation, January 21, 2016: Challenges facing Egypt today.

49. Nathan Brown, George Washington University, January 14, 2016: Egypt five years after the revolution

48. Sarah Bush, Temple University, May 7, 2015. Topics: Democracy Assistance, Jordan, and Tunisia

47. Monica Marks, St Antony’s College, Oxford. February 17, 2015. Topics: Islamist Movements, Politics, and Society in Tunisia

46. Raphaël Lefèvre, University of Cambridge. February 10, 2015. Topics: Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, Syrian Civil War, Lebanon

45. Richard A. Nielsen, MIT. February 2, 2015. Topics: Egypt, Radicalization, Jihadists

44. Abdullah Al-Arian, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. January 21, 2015. Topics: Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Youth Activism

43. Michael Herb, Georgia State University. December 29, 2014. Topics: Kuwait, UAE, Oil, Economic Development

42. Laurie A. Brand, November 3, 2014. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Topics: National Narratives, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan

41. Melani Cammett, Brown University. October 30, 2014. Topics: Social Service Provision, Political Parties, Lebanon

40. Joel S. Migdal, University of Washington. October 21, 2014. Topics: U.S. Foreign Policy, Governance, Arab Uprisings

39. Hisham D. Aidi, Columbia University. September 26, 2014. Topics: Muslim Youth, Hip Hop, Activism

38. Norma Claire Moruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago. September 17, 2014. Topics: Iranian Women, Education, Rouhani

37. Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University. September 12, 2014. Topics: Iranian Politics, Rouhani, Khatami

36. Tarek Masoud, Harvard University. September 9, 2014. Topics: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam

35. Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond. April 16, 2014. Topics: Yemen, National Dialogue Conference, Drone Strikes

34. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Emory University. February 20, 2014. Topics: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic activism

33. François Burgat, Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman. February 7, 2014. Topics: Islamic movements

32. Thomas Hegghammer, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. January 30, 2014. Topics: jihadism, foreign fighters in Syria

31. David Faris, Roosevelt University. December 6, 2013. Topics: social media, activism, Egyptian revolution

30. Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania. November 22, 2013. Topics: Israeli-Palestinian peace process

29. Aboubakr Jamaï, Robert Bosch Foundation. November 8, 2013. Topics: Moroccan media, press freedom

28. Toby Matthiesen, Cambridge University. November 1, 2013. Topics: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism

27. Adria Lawrence, Yale University. October 25, 2013. Topics: Morocco, nationalism, protest movements

26. John Entelis, Fordham University. October 18, 2013. Topics: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, revolution

25. James Toth, New York University Abu Dhabi. October 10, 2013. Topics: Egypt, anthropology, Sayyid Qutb

24. Nathan J. Brown, The George Washington University. August 27, 2013. Topics: Egyptian military, Muslim Brotherhood, constitution

23. Jenny White, Boston University. August 19, 2013. Topics: Turkish nationalism, polarization

22. Philip Howard & Muzammil Hussain, University of Washington. August 13, 2013. Topics: Digital media, Arab Uprisings

21. Mark Tessler, University of Michigan. June 18, 2013. Topics: Arab Barometer, survey research

20. Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland. June 7, 2013. Topics: Arab public opinion, identity

19. Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. May 7, 2013. Topics: Yemen, Lebanon, Islamism

18. Christopher Davidson, Durham University. March 21, 2013. Topics: Gulf politics, monarchies

17. Lindsay Benstead, Portland State University. February 25, 2013. Topics: Tunisia, Algeria, elections

16. Matthew Buehler, University of Texas, Austin. February 18, 2013. Topics: Moroccan Islamist politics, Mauritania

15. Ellen Lust, Yale University. February 13, 2013. Topics: Jordanian elections, participation, reform

14. Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego. February 4, 2013. Topics: social biographies, Israeli/Palestinian peace process

13. Ilan Peleg, Lafayette College. January 28, 2013. Topics: Israeli election, identity politics, Israeli/Palestinian peace process

12. Michael Willis, Oxford University. December 20, 2012. Topics: Maghreb, Algeria, revolution

11. Nathan J. Brown, The George Washington University. December 12, 2012. Topics: Egypt, constitution, law, Muslim Brotherhood

10. Kristin Smith Diwan, American University. December 10, 2012. Topics: Kuwait, elections, protest movements

9. Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University. November 30, 2012. Topics: Syria, refugees, non-violent protest movements

8. Jillian Schwedler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. November 16, 2012. Topics: Jordan, protest movements

7. Jason Brownlee, University of Texas, Austin. November 2, 2012. Topics: Egypt, U.S. foreign policy, democracy, Brownlee’s new book Deterring Democracy

6. David Patel, Cornell University. October 24, 2012. Topics: Iraq, institutions, Middle East Studies

5. Joshua Stacher, Kent State University. September 24, 2012. Topics: Egypt, Syria, Stacher’s new book Adaptable Autocrats

4. Curtis Ryan, Appalachian State University. September 19, 2012. Topic: Jordan

3. F. Gregory Gause, III, University of Vermont. September 12, 2012. Topics: Middle East Studies, Saudi Arabia, monarchy, and the GCC

2. M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University. April 17, 2012. Topics: The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, Libya, Egypt, international law