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InsecureLeaders-500-707

Insecure Leaders: How Elite Infighting May Facilitate the End of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region

Zmkan Ali Saleem, December 2024

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UnderstandingPreferencesforLowCarbonDiets-500-707

Understanding Preferences for Low Carbon Diets and Policies to Address Climate Change in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Arab World

Davide Contu, Ganga Shreedhar, Susana Mourato, Aseel Takshe, Valentina Carfora & Elif Çoker, November 2024

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GlobalIdentityinanUncertainWorld-500-707

Global Identity in an Uncertain World: A Longitudinal Study of the Development of Cosmopolitan Social Attitudes at an Elite International University Setting in the Middle East

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Iván Cano, PJ Henry & Tatiana Karabchuk, October 2024

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BreakingBarriers-500-707

Breaking Barriers: A Leadership Framework for Women’s Development in Sudan

Souad Mohamed, Aida Abbashar and Hala Abushama, October 2024

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Afro-Iraqis-500-707

Afro-Iraqis and the Politics of Non-Memory

Taif Alkhudary, October 2024

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SuppressingDissentinPostTishreenIraq-500-707

Suppressing Dissent in Post-Tishreen Iraq

Iraq Watch Group, September 2024

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UAELabourMarket-500-707

The United Arab Emirates’ Labour Market: An Overview

Mona Elsayed, July 2024

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ProtestingSectarianism-500-707

Protesting Sectarianism: Lebanese Regime Resilience and Thawrat Tishreen

Jinan S. Al-Habbal, June 2024

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TheUNHumanitarianTransition-500-707

The UN’s Humanitarian Transition from Emergency Assistance to Development Funding in Iraq: The Politics of Delivering Aid in a Country of Protracted Post-Conflict Displacement

Alannah Travers, May 2024

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ProblemofTopDownTechnoCentrism-500-707

The Problem of Top-Down Techno-Centrism in Pan-Arab News Media

Omar Al-Ghazzi & Abeer Al-Najjar, May 2024

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AFistfulofDinars-500-707

A Fistful of Dinars: Demystifying Iraq’s Dollar Auction

Ahmed Tabaqchali, April 2024

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SurvivingTogether-500-707

Surviving Together: Infrastructures of Care in Palestine During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Anmar Rafeedie, Haneen Naamneh, Suzi Hall & Abaher El-Sakka, March 2024

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ChangingIsraeliandPalestinianattitudes-500-707

An Analysis of Changing Israeli and Palestinian Attitudes Towards Peace

Elisa Cavatorta & Ben Groom, February 2024

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CompetitionforControlinSinjar-500-707

The Competition for Control in Sinjar: How External Actors and Local Interests Inhibit the Sinjar Agreement

Zmkan Ali Saleem, January 2024

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BehaviouralExplanations-500-707

Behavioural Explanations for Gender Gaps in Obesity and Overweight in Egypt

Joan Costa-Font and Anton Grahed, December 2023

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RoadDisconnectingCities-500-707

Roads (Dis)connecting Cities and Neighbourhoods: A Socio-Spatial Study of Abu Dhabi

Alexandra Gomes, Apostolos Kyriazis, Peter Schwinger, Clémence Montagne and Sepehr Zhand, December 2023

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NeoliberalVisions-500-707

Neoliberal Visions? Exploring Gendered Media and Popular Culture in the Palestinian West Bank

Polly Withers, Rema Hammami, Rania Jawad and Amirah Silmi, December 2023

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MappingtheUnseen-500-707

Mapping the Unseen: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge through Participatory Mapping to Address Displacement and Housing Challenges in Post-Invasion Iraq

Sana Murrani, December 2023

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CorruptionLifebloodPolitics-500-707

Corruption is the Lifeblood of Politics in Iraq

Sajad Jiyad, November 2023

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TheTroubleWithHalbousi-500-707

The Trouble with Halbousi: The Rise of, and Resistance to, Iraq's Sunni Strongman

Simona Foltyn, October 2023

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HigherEducationinIraq-500-707

Higher Education in Iraq After 2003: Ongoing Challenges

Ilham Makki, October 2023

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Towards-Hydro-transparency-500-707

Towards Hydro-Transparency on the Euphrates-Tigris Basin: Mapping Surface Water Changes in Iraq, 1984–2015

Michael Mason, Zeynep Akıncı, Arda Bilgen, Noori Nasir and Azhar Al-Rubaie, October 2023

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LebanonUnsettled-Paper-500-707

Lebanon Unsettled: The Spatialities of the October 2019 Uprising

Deen Sharp, October 2023

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ANewDiasporaofSaudiExiles-500-707

A New Diaspora of Saudi Exiles: Challenging Repression from Abroad

Madawi Al-Rasheed, September 2023

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TheYazidiGenocide-500-707

The Yazidi Genocide: A Demographic Documentation of ISIL’s Attack on Tel Qasab and Tel Banat

Valeria Cetorelli and Sareta Ashraph, September 2023

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ArtandActivisminIraqiKurdistan-500-707

Art and Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Feminist Fault Lines, Body Politics and the Struggle for Space

Isabel Käser & Houzan Mahmoud, September 2023

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TurkeyasaMediator-500-707

Turkey as a Mediator

Spyros A. Sofos, July 2023

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NavigatingtheHorn-500-707

Navigating the Horn: Turkey's Forays in East Africa

Spyros A. Sofos, July 2023

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TransnationalDynamics-500-707

Transnational Dynamics in the MENA Region: Exploring Policy Responses

Spyros A. Sofos, June 2023

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ConflictMediationNewsMedia-500-707

Conflict Mediation and the News Media

Jenifer Vaughan, May 2023

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ProtectorsoftheState-500-707

Protectors of the State? The Popular Mobilisation Forces During the 2022 Post-election Crisis

Simona Foltyn, April 2023

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ChangingtheSystemfromWithin-500-707

Changing the System from Within? The Role of Opposition Parties in Consolidating Democracy in Iraq Post-2019

Taif Alkhudary, March 2023

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DoesExportCompositionMatter-500-707

Does Export Composition Matter for Economic Growth in the UAE?

Athanasia Stylianou Kalaitzi, Samer Kherfi, Sahel Alrousan & Marina-Selini Katsaiti, November 2022

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KurdishProtestMovementIran-500-707

The Kurdish Protest Movement and the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Securitisation of Kurdish Nationalism

Allan Hassaniyan & Gareth Stansfield, April 2022

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PeacebuildinginTurbulentTimes-500-707

Peacebuilding in Turbulent Times: Turkey in MENA and Africa

Spyros A. Sofos, March 2022

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QatarUAEinPeacemakingandPeacebuilding-500-707

Qatar and the UAE in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding

Courtney Freer, March 2022

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RegionalOrganisationsinPeacemaking-500-707

MENA Regional Organisations in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding: The League of Arab States, Gulf Cooperation Council and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

Courtney Freer, March 2022

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TheOccupiedJawlan-500-707

The Occupied Jawlan: An Online Open Curriculum

Michael Mason, Muna Dajani, Munir Fakher Eldin & Omar Tesdell, December 2021

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MsMarvel-500-707

In-Between Identities and Cultures: Ms. Marvel and the Representation of Young Muslim Women

Jennifer Jackson-Preece & Manmit Bhambra, May 2021

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RedefiningDeprivation-500-707

Redefining Deprivation in a Conflict Area: Learning from the Palestinian Experience Using Mixed Methods

Tiziana Leone, Weeam Hammoudeh, Susan Mitwali, David Lewis, Rawan Kafri, Tracy Lin, Rita Giacaman & Ernestina Coast, March 2021

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RevolutioninParallelTimes-500-707

Revolution in Parallel Times: An Egyptian Village's Lived Revolution

Heba M. Khalil, March 2021

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PraetorianSpearhead-500-707

Praetorian Spearhead: The Role of the Military in the Evolution of Egypt’s State Capitalism 3.0

Yezid Sayigh, January 2021

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NorthAfricasExportEconomies-500-707

North Africa's Export Economies and Structural Fragility: The Limits of Development through European Value Chains

Shamel Azmeh & Abeer Elshennawy, December 2020

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StrikesRiotsandLaughter-500-707

Strikes, Riots and Laughter: Al-Himamiyya Village's Experience of Egypt's 1918 Peasant Insurrection

Alia Mossallam, September 2020

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WhoseStory-500-707

Whose Story? Narratives of Nationalism in Heritage Production of the Arabian Peninsula

Courtney Freer & Yasmine Kherfi, August 2020

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PrinceandtheMinotaur-500-707

The Prince and the Minotaur: Egypt in the Labyrinth of Counter-Revolution

Brecht De Smet, June 2020

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PublicMediaAccountability-500-707

Public Media Accountability: Media Journalism, Engaged Publics and Critical Media Literacy in the MENA

Abeer Al-Najjar, June 2020

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BeingChineseMuslimsinDubai-500-707

Being Chinese Muslims in Dubai: Religion and Nationalism in a Transnational Space

Yuting Wang, May 2020

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PreventingStatelessness-500-733

Preventing Statelessness among Migrants and Refugees: Birth Registration and Consular Assistance in Egypt and Morocco

Bronwen Manby, June 2019

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E-ShekelsAcrossBorders-500-733

E-Shekels Across Borders: A Distributed Ledger System to Settle Payments Between Israel and the West Bank

Priscilla Toffano & Kathy Yuan, April 2019

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HughRobertsCalculusOfDissidence-500-733

The Calculus of Dissidence: How the Front des Forces Socialistes Became What It Is

Hugh Roberts, October 2018

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FalehJabar500-707

The Iraqi Protest Movement: From Identity Politics to Issue Politics

Faleh Jabar, June 2018

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NadjeAlAliDialecticsOfStruggle

Dialectics of Struggle: Challenges to the Kurdish Women's Movement

Nadje Al-Ali & Latif Tas, March 2018

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eu-ennahda-relations-500-707

The EU's Engagement with 'Moderate' Political Islam: The Case of Ennahda

Silvia Colombo & Benedetta Voltolini, July 2017

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ZeynepKayaGender

Gender and Statehood in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Zeynep Kaya, February 2017

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AliAnsari

Iran's Eleventh Presidential Election Revisited: The Politics of Managing Change

Ali Ansari, November 2016

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FadiBardawil

Theorising Revolution, Apprehending Civil War: Leftist Political Practice and Analysis in Lebanon (1969–79)

Fadi Bardawil, October 2016

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Dionigi_Syrian_Refugees

The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: State Fragility and Social Resilience 

Filippo Dionigi, February 2016

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JoelBeinin-1

Political Economy and Social Movement Theory Perspectives on the Tunisian and Egyptian Popular Uprisings in 2011

Joel Beinin, January 2016

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CharlesTripp

Battlefields of the Republic: The Struggle for Public Space in Tunisia

Charles Tripp, December 2015

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MadawiSaudiResilience

Is it Always Good to be King? Saudi Regime Resilience after the 2011 Arab Popular Uprisings

Madawi Al-Rasheed, December 2015

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Pejman

The Revival of Nationalism and Secularism in Modern Iran

Pejman Abdolmohammadi, November 2015

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CharlesAnderson-PalPeasentry

Will the Real Palestinian Peasantry Please Sit Down? Towards a New History of British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1936

Charles Anderson, November 2015

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CourtneyFreerRentierIslamism

Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf

Courtney Freer, November 2015

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MahaAbdelrahman

Social Movements and the Question of Organisation: Egypt and Everywhere

Maha Abdelrahman, September 2015

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DivinePolitics

Divine Politics Reconsidered: Saudi Islamists on Peaceful Revolution

Madawi Al-Rasheed, May 2015

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ShamelAzmeh

The Uprising of the Marginalised: A Socio-Economic Perspective of the Syrian Uprising

Shamel Azmeh, November 2014

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AitemadWomensActivism

New Trends of Women's Activism after the Arab Uprisings: Redefining Women's Leadership

Aitemad Muhanna-Matar, November 2014

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RayHinnebuschSyriaIraqRelations

Syria-Iraq relations: State Construction and Deconstruction and the MENA States System

Raymond Hinnebusch, October 2014

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MaliheMaghazeiConsciousMusic

Trends in Contemporary Conscious Music in Iran

Malihe Maghazei, June 2014

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KarenYoung

The Emerging Interventionists of the GCC

Karen Young, December 2013

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SaadJawad

The Iraqi Constitution: Structural Flaws and Political Implications

Saad Jawad, November 2013

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