Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. In August 2005, I casually informed a Yemeni official with whom I
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
Flipping the Scripts: Pop Culture as Alternative Subject and Data Source in MENA Studies
Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins University—SAIS This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. In February 2012, Turkish director Faruk Aksoy’s Fetih 1453 (The Conquest 1453) sold 2.2 million
Polling an Islamic Republic: The Iran Social Survey
Kevan Harris, UCLA and Daniel Tavana, Princeton University This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. Polls in Iran, when conducted with sound methods, can inform us about