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Farewell to a Most Humane Pope
And welcome to the resistance, APSA.
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Is Israel really the Middle East's hegemon?
No. Here's why... and why that's dangerous.
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Palestinian Islamists and the Road to October 7
Plus a special focus on recent academic work on Syria's Post-Asad transition
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Tariffing the Middle East
Why does Trump hate Tunisian olive oil and American allies?
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Harvard can't capitulate hard enough
Plus Columbia promises to airdrop pro-Israeli faculty into departments and deportations accelerate.
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The Yemen Model (Extreme Stupidity Era)
Plus why I'm not renewing my APSA membership or attending the 2025 conference.
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Decentralization in the Middle East
This week's roundup from the MENA Academy, amidst another barrage of terrible news.
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Academic self-censorship under Trump
The new round of the Middle East Scholars Barometer captures the dangers of the moment
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Coalitions for collective action, moral panics and perfect victims
Plus renewed war with Houthis, closing Alhurra and a roundup from the weekend
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Columbia and the next front in the war on higher education
It's not just punishing protestors - two of the government's demands are far worse.
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The accelerating assault on Middle East Studies - and higher education.
Plus: a new blog format for perilous times
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Has Iran lost the Middle East? Not so fast.
Plus this week's review of great new research in the MENA Academy!