Richard A. Nielsen, MIT This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. I stared at the word “God”—allah in Arabic—at the top of the list on my computer screen.
Ideological Scaling in a Post Islamist Age
Nate Grubman, Yale University This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. In recent years, a growing body of scholarship has focused on the interaction of cultural identity
Quantitative Text Analysis of Arabic News Media
Ala’ Alrababa’h, Stanford University This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. Middle East scholars have long relied on Arabic news media to understand the priorities of Arab
Text as Data: Applications of Automated Text Analysis in the Middle East and North Africa
Alexandra Blackman, New York University – Abu Dhabi This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. How do political parties in Tunisia present their economic platforms? How do