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Sports and Politics in the Middle East
Our new collection of essays digs deep from the stadium level to controversial global investments
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Free Stuff!
Get ready for the summer with a bunch of free Middle East/Africa content I found for you.
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Public scholarship in a degraded public sphere
An important new study shows that political scientists want to be relevant. But is there still a public sphere to sustain it?
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Legacies of British Empire and Emergency Law
Yael Berda's new book puts Israel's management of Palestinians into perspective
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Yemen in the Shadow of Transition
A new book with a refreshing and incisive reconceptualization of Yemen's war(s)
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Debating Israel's One State Reality
Some revealing responses, if not for the intended reasons
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Previewing Türkiye's Election
Views from the political science literature on Erdogan's prospects and Turkish democracy
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Happy Birthday, Abu Aardvark's MENA Academy!
Reflecting on a year of blogging, and looking towards the future
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The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East
I've got a chapter in Samer Shehata's very useful new collection on regional politics
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Is the two state solution dead? Will Israeli or Iranian protests succeed? And other questions.
The new wave of the Middle East Scholars Barometer is full of fascinating trends
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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