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Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine

September 13, 2021September 20, 2021 Palestine

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 344. $28.00 paper.

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The End Times Experiment: A Review of The ISIS Apocalypse

November 19, 2015 Arabian Gulf, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, McCants, Sunni, Syria

Despite their prominence in America’s daily news cycle, the leaders of the Islamic State remain misunderstood.  Many pundits and analysts

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Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance

November 9, 2015 Egypt, Egyptian parliamentary elections, Hamas, Jason Brownlee, Mubarak, U.S.-Egypt Relations, United States, US Foreign Policy

Faiqa T. Mahmood is a Visiting Fellow at The Stimson Center’s South Asia program. She is also a Research Associate

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Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 Hama, Raphael Lefevre, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian Crisis

Ashes of Hama by Raphael Lefevre provides a chronological description of the progression of the Syrian Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood). The

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Review of the Oscar-Nominated Documentary, “The Square”

February 2, 2014 Arab Awakenings, Egypt, Social Justice, youth

Just as Egyptians were preparing themselves for the third anniversary of the 2011 “Lotus” Revolution, a sold-out theater on the

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Purifying Transitional Governments of Authoritarian Bureaucracies: Lessons from Eastern Europe for the Arab World

December 13, 2013December 13, 2013 Iraq, Libya, Transitional Justice

The follow article is a review of the book, Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary,

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A Review of Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Under the Justice and Development Party

April 10, 2013November 24, 2013 Islamism, Turkey

Edited by Kerem Öktem, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, and Mehmet Karlı Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2012 Cigdem Hajipouran Benam holds a PhD

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