Betul Dogan Akkas | 18 November 2022
A decade of dedicated work has been poured into Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation, and Social Media by Marc Owen Jones. The book comprises of fifteen chapters, including case studies and theoretical discussions that are in-depth and interdisciplinary. In his preface
Betul Dogan Akkas | 23 December 2021
In 2018, students and scholars of Gulf Studies were shocked by news stories reporting that a PhD student from Durham University was charged with spying in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to evidence [...]
Betul Dogan Akkas | 04 August 2021
Christopher M. Davidson’s From Sheikhs to Sultanism is an outstanding conceptualization of authoritarianism and statecraft in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Like Davidson’s previous publications on the Gulf monarchies, it delivers a detailed analysis [...]
Ferit Belder | 13 September 2019
The Arab Uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the end of 2010 initiated a new phase of political activism and continue to rock decades-old establishments in the region. During this [...]
Mehmet Akif Koc | 13 September 2019
Islamism has been one of the critical concepts in describing Middle Eastern states and communities, particularly in the aftermath of events such as the Iranian Revolution of 1979, post-9/11 US military intervention in Afghanistan and [...]
Mehmet Akif Koc | 13 September 2019
As one of the powerful geopolitical and historical centres of the Arab world, Egypt has restored its long-lasting system of ‘strongman’ rule following President Morsi’s ousting in July 2013. Within the context of state-society relations [...]
Nesibe Hicret Battaloglu | 27 August 2019
In her book Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies, Courtney Freer provides a comprehensive study of the emergence and evolution of branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf. [...]
Harun Karcic | 15 August 2019
Jocelyne Cesari’s What is Political Islam? is a timely book that provides an insightful framework for analyzing the relationship between modern Muslim-majority states and Islam. The book is essentially a genealogy of the evolution of [...]
Nurbanu Dursun | 15 August 2019
Islamic Activism is a collaborative study of the intersection of social movement theory and political Islamism. It is an edited book that brings various disciplines and important articles under one roof, from comparative politics, security [...]
