Gamze Cavdar, Colorado State University, Gamze.Cavdar@colostate.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Do Islamist governments harm women’s educational and professional opportunities? Previous scholarship suggests no consistent trend
Why Autocrats Adopt Women’s Rights: The Case of Morocco
Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, atripp@wisc.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Why have the three Maghreb countries, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, passed more extensive constitutional
State repression and activist organizing in informal spaces: Comparing feminist movements in Egypt and Iran
Erika Biagini, Dublin City University, Erika.biagini@dcu.ie , Paola Rivetti, Dublin City University, Paola.rivetti@dcu.ie This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. A decade since the so called “Arab Spring”,
Islamist Identity Politics in Conflict Settings
Morten Valbjørn, Aarhus University, mortenv@ps.au.dk; Jeroen Gunning, King’s College London, jeroen.gunning@kcl.ac.uk This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Do identities matter for explaining the behavior of Islamist actors
Islamist Radicalization and Civil War
Elizabeth R. Nugent, Yale University, elizabeth.nugent@yale.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Do war conditions radicalize Islamist political actors? If so, how? And are Islamist actors radicalized