We are excited to announce that the APSA MENA Politics section is a co-recipient of a Special Projects grant from APSA for new programming on research ethics planned for summer and fall 2022. Working with the Research Ethics in the
Report: COVID-19 Pandemic Compounds Challenges Facing MENA Research
By Nermin Allam, Gail Buttorff and Marwa Shalaby This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Researchers of Middle East and North African (MENA) politics have long faced considerable
Trust and Activism in the MENA
Nadine Sika, American University in Cairo This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. Political trust is essential for stability in authoritarian regimes. It is an individual’s evaluation
Qatar and the GCC Crisis and the Impact on Scholarship on the Gulf
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. The June 2017 rupture in relations between Qatar and four
The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Daniel Masterson, Stanford University and Lama Mourad, Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative and University of Toronto This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. The Syrian refugee