We would like to thank our current Editorial Board for all the hard work they have done over the last two years for the APSA-MENA Politics Newsletter. In addition, we would like to give a warm welcome to APSA MENA’s incoming editorial team for Volume 5 of the APSA MENA Newsletter.
Nermin Allam
Dr. Nermin Allam is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Rutgers University-Newark. Before joining Rutgers, Allam held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. Allam holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Alberta, Canada.
Gamze Çavdar
Gamze Çavdar is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the department of Political Science at Colorado State University. She has conducted fieldwork in a number of countries particularly on Islamist movements and their gender policies. Her research interests more recently expanded to include the politics of food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Sean L. Yom
Sean Yom is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University and Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a specialist on regimes and governance in the Middle East, especially in Arab monarchies like Jordan, Kuwait, and Morocco. His research engages topics of authoritarian politics, democratic reforms, institutional stability, and economic development in these countries, as well as their implications for US foreign policy.