The Origins of Kuwait's National Assembly in Comparative Perspective

The Origins of Kuwait's National Assembly in ...

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Youth Protests and the Future of Reform in Morocco

In September, a wave of protests emerged in Morocco led by the country's youth, known as GenZ 212. Since September, 3 people have been killed and 400 arrested according to Amnesty International. Triggered by the deaths of women in an Agadir hospital, the protest movement’s demand ...  عرض المزيد

Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa

With hardening authoritarianism and state capture by militias exacerbating the challenges faced by providers of development and political aid across the Middle East and North Africa, how can aid be made more effective? Can donors overcome the limitations of their outdated assista ...  عرض المزيد

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The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait (S. 13, Ep. 23)
POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast

On this week's episode of the podcast, Courtney Freer of Emory University joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait: Parliament, Rentierism, and Society. This book provides an unprecedented holistic treatment of grassroots contem ...  عرض المزيد

Bader Al-Saif: Kuwait's Perceptions, People, and Progress
Babel: Translating the Middle East

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Bader Al-Saif, a U.S.-trained Kuwaiti academic. Together, they discuss Kuwaitis’ perceptions of the Israel-Hamas war, U.S. geostrategy, and where Kuwait itself is headed almost 35 years after Iraq’s invasion of the country. Then, Jon c ...  عرض المزيد

The invasion of Kuwait
Witness History

Thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks began pouring into Kuwait on 2 August 1990. The tiny, oil-rich Gulf state was immediately taken over by Saddam Hussein's military. Sumaya Bakhsh has spoken to Sami al-Alawi who joined the Kuwaiti underground resistance trying to free the countr ...  عرض المزيد

Why did Kuwait, one of the most democratic countries in the Mideast, take a sharp autocratic turn & what comes next?
On the Middle East with Amberin Zaman

Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, unpacks Kuwait's dramatic turn last week when the country's ruling Emir suspended the parliament and parts of the constitution.

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