by Michelle Pace
On 13 February 2015, the MEC hosted the launch of a special Issue of the journal Mediterranean Politics on The Politics of Foreign Aid in the Arab World: The Impact of the Arab Uprisings. Bringing together academics, NGO representatives, journalists, policy makers and students, the event focused on the changing state of aid in the Arab world […]
by Frances Underhill
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, contemporary conservative Iran has taken a hardline against female musicians, and in particular the solo female voice. Female singers are only permitted to sing publically when accompanying a male soloist as background vocalists, or when singing in a group of all-female singers, for an all-female audience. Some religious texts suggest that the […]
by John P. Entelis, Fordham University
This memo was prepared for ‘The Arab Thermidor: The Resurgence of the Security State’ workshop held at LSE on 10 October 2014 in collaboration with POMEPS.
The resurgence of the mukhabarat state in the three years after the Arab Spring revolutions has inspired several competing explanations ranging from dysfunctional leadership to external interference to radical Islamism to recalcitrant militaries, among others. What […]
In 2011 uprisings broke out across the Middle East and North Africa, where people took to the streets demanding increased rights, freedoms, and in some cases the overthrow of dictators. Four years later, however, the region seems to be in the grip of a resurgence of authoritarianism. This Thermidor moment poses profound theoretical and analytical challenges to the study of […]
Are you looking for a bit of context following the Jordanian elections last week or in the wake of Algeria’s In Amenas gas plant attack? We have some podcasts for you:
On 23 January, Dr Tariq Tell, a political economist currently teaching at the Centre for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut, examined the history of […]
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