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Iraq Against the World
Samuel Helfont mines the Iraqi archives of Saddam's international information warfare
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Sudan's descent into civil war
My conversation with Mai Hassan
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Israel's One State Reality
Understanding Palestine and Israel as they actually are.
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Join me on Notes
Because Twitter really isn't doing it anymore.
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Gender and COVID in the Middle East
An important new book sheds light on the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women
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Five Journal Articles I Liked (This Week)
Post-Islamism, university elections, teaching gender politics, Iraqi development and more!
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Gulf Security and Gulf Insecurity
David Roberts' sweeping overview of change and continuity in the Gulf monarchies
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Is China forging an alternative Middle Eastern order?
Dawn Murphy's new account of China's long-term strategy in Africa, the Middle East and the Global South
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Is this really why we invaded Iraq?
What's missing from a new history of the Bush administration's catastrophic war decision
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Contextualizing China's mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran
This week's podcast features two new books on the evolution of Saudi Arabia's place in the global and regional order
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How badly are MENA political scientists really doing?
Two new studies of journal publication trends shed more light on what is and isn't getting published, and why it matters.
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It's the 250th episode of the Middle East Political Science Podcast!
What makes new democracies durable, or not; and Tunisia's horrifying racist turn