Political Economies of MENA & Politics of Tea...

On this week's episode of the podcast, Hossam el-Hamalawy joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic. The book is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and methods of the military, police, and intellige ...  Show more

On this week's episode of the podcast, Fırat Bozçalı of University of Toronto joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands. Taking readers from border villages, mountain passes, and road checkpoints to courtrooms ...  Show more

This keynote lecture took place at the Gramsci in the Middle East & North Africa Conference organised by the LSE Middle East Centre in cooperation with Ghent University from 9-10 May, 2022. The conference explored, through empirically-grounded research, how Gramsci’s work can hel ...  Show more

This episode discusses the objectives of the podcast, which are: making the process of producing knowledge more accessible to the Arab world and discussing the importance of investments in integrative networks & interrelations among researchers and knowledge production ins ...

Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s  Pitfalls of Scholarship: Lessons from Islamic Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) is a unique reflection on the field of Islamic studies. It is not quite a memoir, although it is reflective of Islamic studies, academia, and higher education in general. It is al ...  Show more

This season is a collaboration between Women of the Middle East (WME) podcast and Musawah. Musawah (‘equality’ in Arabic) is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. Musawah launched in February 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They work in Internati ...