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Neil Ketchley (Oxford University) Following the 2011 Arab Spring, autocrats have sought to limit citizens’ ability to publicize offline protests over social media. In this paper, we explore how users can adapt to these restrictions. …

Fatima Sadiqi (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University) The 2010-2011 uprisings in the Maghrib were instigated by new actors, and also by the new ambiguities that postcolonial rule in the region created. After more than a …

Hind Zaki (University of Connecticut) Egypt is currently witnessing a moment of reckoning with sexual violence with women from different wakes of life coming forward to share their experiences with gender-based violence in the workplace, …

Nermin Allam (Rutgers University) The literature on contentious politics has not traditionally engaged with the politics of the veil in protest movements. In this paper, I investigate how shifts in opportunities influence women’s choices around …

A widespread sense of ‘suspension’ and ‘impasse’ seem to overwhelm the activists in the Middle East today—a sense that whatever they do to alter the political status-quo does not yield. Why is that? In this …

Bruce Rutherford (Colgate University) The regime of Abd al-Fatah al-Sisi exhibits a deeper form of authoritarianism than its predecessor. Its distinctive features include a higher level of violence against the country’s civilian population. This paper …

Cole Bunzel (Stanford University) How have jihadi actors and groups, including al-Qaida and the Islamic State, approached and interpreted the Arab Spring revolutions of 2010-11? In the early days of the revolutions, the jihadis sought …

Andrew Simon (Dartmouth College) How might mass media assist us in rethinking the making of the modern Middle East? What is the future of popular culture as an avenue of academic inquiry? And in what …

Nahid Siamdoust (University of Texas/Austin) For nearly a century, Iran strived to achieve independence from foreign powers, both Russia to the east and European powers and the US to the west. With the revolution of …