The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Virtual Book Workshops to be held in the academic year 2026-2027. The goal of the workshop is to prepare th...

The Project on Middle East Political Science announces a call for proposals for POMEPS Travel – Research – Engagement (TRE) grants for 2027. Awards of up to $3,000 will be offered to support research ...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Inna Rudolf of Kings College London joins Marc Lynch to discuss her book, Iraq’s Shi’a Warriors: From Battlefield to Parliament. By examining the PMU’s self-posi...

The Project on Middle East Political Science announces a call for proposals for POMEPS Travel – Research – Engagement (TRE) grants for 2027. Awards of up to $3,000 will be offered to support research ...

The Department of Political Science at Université Laval is inviting applications for a full-time tenure-track position of Professor in International Security and Strategic Studies. The selected candidate will teach, generate original knowledge and help consolidate the Department’s scientific and academic leadership in this important field. Responsibilities include teaching at the undergraduate and the graduate (M.A. […]

POMEPS & MENA Initiative Workshop, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Workshop Date: Friday, March 26, 2027 While citizenship is often understood as a source of rights and protection, ...

The GIGA seeks to appoint a  Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Peace and Conflict Studies/ International Relations/ Comparative Politics or International Political Economy Applications are invited for a full-time position, with an initial contract of three years and the possibility of another three years after successful evaluation and depending on […]

The war with Iran has had a massive and still unfolding direct impact on global and regional security.  The effects of the still ongoing war are likely to have unpredictable cascading effects across the region. POMEPS invites proposals for a workshop at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to be held on Friday, October 30, to […]

The war with Iran has had a massive and still unfolding direct impact on global and regional security.  The effects of the still ongoing war are likely to have unpredictable cascading effects across the region. POMEPS invites proposals for a workshop at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to be held on Friday, October 30, to […]

Please join us for the POMEPS – MENA Politics Reception at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA! The reception will take place on Friday, September 4th, 2026 from 7:30 pm to 9 pm at the Hynes Co...

You are invited to contribute to a special issue of Cooperation and Conflict, scheduled for publication in December 2028.  The proposed issue, “Cartographies of Dispossession: War, Statecraft, and Int...

The Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security (JCTS) is currently inviting submissions for an upcoming special issue titled “The Kurdish Diaspora: Transnational Agency in Conflict Transformation...

You are invited to contribute to a forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Genealogy, titled “Kin: The Impact of Political Narratives on Family Histories.” Mainstream genealogical research frequently...

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 21 (January/February 2026) of the peer-reviewed English language journal Al-Muntaqa: Ne...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Samer Abboud of Villanova University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his book, Betrayal of the Homeland: Disloyal Subjects in Wartime Syria. In the book, Abboud argu...

The GIGA seeks to appoint a MECAM Publication Manager / Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) Applications are invited for an 80% position, with a contract until 28 February 2029, starting 1 October 20...

Kelly Stedem, Bucknell University   In November 2024, Israel launched a devastating surprise attack on Hizbullah which killed many of its top leaders. Many commentators argued that this attack represe...

Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges   As Yemen enters its second decade of war, analysis of the everyday provision of education offers a surprisingly useful lens for exploring qu...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Sina Azodi of the George Washington University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his book, Iran and the Bomb: The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question. The bo...

Tyler B. Parker, Mercer University The Sultanate of Oman ensures its survival through an independent foreign policy that is neither formally allied, functionally dependent, nor factually neutral. By a...

Samer Abboud, Villanova University When Syrian Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri declared the formation of a new military unit called the “National Guard” (al-Haras al-Watani) in August 2025 to protect the...

In the context of the current US and Israeli wars on Iran (and Lebanon) and during what appears to be the eclipse of US primacy, we brought together a group of scholars with expertise on the “weak” st...

Pete Moore, Case Western Reserve University   The February 28, 2026 American and Israeli attack on Iran has demonstrated the power as well as the peril of US military bases in the Middle East. On the ...

Courtney Freer, Emory University Kuwaiti foreign policy was for decades constrained by the presence of the Gulf’s most vocal and powerful legislature.[1] Since May 2024, however, that legislature has ...

Sean Yom, Temple University US foreign policy during President Trump’s second term has subverted the strategy of weak and vulnerable states when contracting with the US as a hegemonic power through a ...

In the context of the current US and Israeli wars on Iran (and Lebanon) and during what appears to be the eclipse of US primacy, we brought together a group of scholars with expertise on the “weak” st...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Samuel Helfont of the Naval War College at the Naval Postgraduate School joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new edited volume, Ba‘thist Iraq through Archives: Refle...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Kali Rubaii of Purdue University joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq. The book expands the temporal and de...

Professor Lisel Hintz of Johns Hopkins University started this group soon after the February 2023 earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as a post-disaster solidarity community to help students and scholars ...

Following the success of the previous four rounds, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Institute for Palestine Studies are pleased to invite research proposals for the fourth Annua...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Jason Brownlee of University of Austin-Texas joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Force Without Authority: America’s Wars in the Middle East and South Asia....

Salah Ben Hammou, Ph.D., Rice University Jonathan Powell, Ph.D., Campbellsville University   Between 2020 and 2025, the world watched as military coups swept across the Sahel, with soldiers turning th...

Md Maniruzzaman Mamun, University of Florida   Mark Beissinger argues that urban civic revolutions often unite diverse participants through shared anger at corruption, economic hardship, and abusive r...

David Russell, University of Florida   In 2016, the Islamic State’s Libya Province (ISLP) operated throughout the country, recording incidents of political violence in 11 of Libya’s 22 districts and b...

Brahim El Guabli, Johns Hopkins University    Since the independence of Tamazghan (broader North African) nation states from France in the mind-1950s and the early 1960s, Imazighen (sing. Amazigh), th...

Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City University   In late September 2025, Morocco witnessed an intense wave of youth-led unrest in years. What began as an eruption of local frustration over failing public ...

Alexandra Blackman, Cornell University   In 2021, the Moroccan parliament approved Law 13–21, which legalized the cultivation of cannabis for medical, pharmaceutical, and industrial purposes while mai...

Mariam Ben Slama, Johns Hopkins University   “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, abov...

Hind Ahmed Zaki, University of Connecticut   It was a rainy day in Tunis in January 2014. Iit had been pouring for hours as I made my way to the office of Bouchra Bel Haj Hamida, a civil rights lawyer...

Brahim Afrit, Tulane University   Introduction In the 2000s, Algerian authorities set in motion a project of religious diplomacy in which local Sufism serves as a source of secular influence in the Sa...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Hossam el-Hamalawy joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi’s New Republic. The book is a rare and comprehensive examination of...

Baba Adou, University of Florida   In the early 2000s, the Mauritanian regime faced two kinds of pressure linked to Islamist politics and jihadist violence. In June 2005, a major attack on a military ...

Michael Schuster, University of Florida   The trajectory of Salafism in Tunisia since the 2011 Jasmine Revolution poses a central paradox for debates about Islamic movements and authoritarian resilien...

In February 2026, POMEPS and the Project on African Social Research organized a workshop hosted by the University of Florida’s Political Science Department Center for Global Islamic Studies to take st...

The Fulbright Canada Scholar Program for U.S. scholars is now open for applications for the 2027-2028 academic year. As part of this competition, Université Laval will host a visiting scholar selected...