Middle Eastern Politics

Oman Reborn: Balancing Tradition and Modernization

By Linda Pappas Funsch

Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers: The Rise of the Arab Gulf

By Rory Miller

Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise - Rebels

By Christina Hellmich

Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy

By Dalia F. Fahmy, Daanish Faruqi

From Caliphate to Secular State: Power Struggle in the Early Turkish Republic

By Hakan OEzoglu, Ph.D.

Youth and Revolution in the Changing Middle East, 1908-2014

By Haggai Erlich

Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise

By Liam Anderson, Gareth Stansfield

Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism

By Ronit Lentin

Iraq: People, History, Politics

By Gareth Stansfield (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity

By Laurent Bonnefoy

Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War

By Rashid Khalidi

The Circassians of Turkey: War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Ataturk

By Caner Yelbasi

U.S.-Iran Misperceptions: A Dialogue

By Abbas Maleki, John Tirman

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

By Larry Diamond (Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University), Marc F. Plattner (Editor, National Endowment for Democracy)

At the Doors of Paradise: Discourses of Female Self-Sacrifice, Martyrdom and Resistance in Palestine

By Lisa Maria Franke

How Capitalism Failed the Arab World: The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings

By Richard Javad Heydarian

The Nuclear Question in the Middle East

By Mehran Kamrava

The Future of Petroleum in Lebanon: Energy, Politics and Economic Growth

By Sami Atallah, Bassam Fattouh (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Social Media and Politics in Turkey: A Journey through Citizen Journalism, Political Trolling, and Fake News

By Erkan Saka

Turkey-Syria Relations: Between Enmity and Amity

By OEzlem Tur, Raymond Hinnebusch

Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank

By Yael Berda

Anticipating a Nuclear Iran: Challenges for U.S. Security

By Jacquelyn Davis (Pls note: Prof. Pfaltzgraff is primary contact), Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr. (Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis)

Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions

By Joy Gordon

Conflict and War in the Middle East: From Interstate War to New Security

By Bassam Tibi

Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War: The Turkish Secret Service, the US and the UK

By Egemen Bezci

Kurds in Turkey: Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Experiences

By Adnan Celik, Ayhan Isik, Lucie Drechselova, Davut Yesilmen, Isabel Kaser

Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin

By Berna Turam

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World

By Ussama Makdisi

The Future of Kurdistan: The Iraqi Dilemma

By Kerim Yildiz

After the Caliphate: The Islamic State & the Future Terrorist Diaspora

By Colin P. Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University)