Welcome to the second issue of the APSA MENA POLITICS NEWSLETTER. The engaging, thoughtful essays in this Newsletter offer both important individual contributions and a collective mapping of two exciting new areas for political science research on the Middle East: New Approaches to Survey Research in MENA and Text as Data. We hope that you find them useful, and we look forward to hearing your ideas for future symposia or standalone essays.
WELCOME MESSAGES
APSA-MENA 2019 Awards: Best Dissertation, José Ciro Martínez and Best APSA Paper, Diana Greenwald
NEW APPROACHES TO SURVEY RESEARCH IN MENA
Section Introduction, Holger Albrecht
The meaning of public opinion research in the Arab world, Justin Gengler
Trust and Activism in the MENA, Nadine Sika
Studying political behavior in an increasingly closed region, Yael Zeira
Explaining Ennahda’s electoral success in Tunisia, Lindsay Benstead
The resilience of Algeria’s protest movement, Sharan Grewal
Surveying nuclear attitudes in the Middle East, Matt Buehler
TEXT AS DATA
Applications of automated text analysis in the MENA, Alexandra Domike Blackman
Using Social Media Data to Study Arab Politics, Alexandra Siegel
Quantitative text analysis of Arabic news media, Ala’ Alrababa’h
Ideological scaling in a post-Islamist age, Nate Grubman
What counting words can teach us about Middle East politics, Richard Nielsen
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS