Catherine Warrick, Villanova University, catherine.warrick@villanova.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. The body of scholarship on gender and politics is rich and wide-ranging, as the essays in
Gilead in Palestine
Lihi Ben Shitrit, University of Georgia, lben@uga.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. In her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, which has received renewed attention following its
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
Islamism in Civil War
Nicholas J. Lotito, Yale University, nicholas.lotito@yale.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Political violence perpetrated by Islamists is most often considered in the context of terrorism, rather