Habiba Ali | 06 May 2025 | AR
Jérôme Drevon’s From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics (Oxford University Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive and insightful examination of this transformation. Focusing primarily on Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra—later restructured as [...]
Tayseer Mohamedali | 21 March 2025
The traditional narrative of studying jihadi politics has often focused on understanding how these groups operate and analyzing them from a Western-centric perspective. Even within conflict studies, the emphasis has primarily been on highlighting the clashes between jihadi groups and Western powers, while the internal dynamics of these groups have been largely overlooked
Fouad Mami | 29 April 2021
The Battle for Syria contends that no solid understanding of the ongoing mayhem in Syria is possible without an equal consideration of the country’s internal and external conditions. Most studies on Syria focus on the internal structure of the regime: its sectarian components which allegedly makes it ‘coup-proofed’
Thomas Parker | 19 March 2021
Andrew F. March, The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought Finally, Islamic democracy would leave theory and see application. Or so it seemed to some as the Arab uprisings spread throughout [...]
Ümit Seven | 07 March 2021
Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East. The conflict in Syria shortly assumed regional and global dimensions following the first protests in the southern city of Deraa in [...]
Hamdallah Baycar | 04 March 2021
Toby Matthiesen, Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't. In “Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t”, Toby Matthiesen explores the impact of sectarianism during the [...]
Aya Hossam | 03 March 2021
The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform. Three years after the onset of the Arab uprisings, Jason Brownlee, Tarek Masoud, and Andrew Reynolds explain in “The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform” [...]
Ferit Belder | 03 March 2021
James Gelvin, The Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know The Arab uprisings have transformed the nature of politics, source of political legitimacy, forms of political violence and the international politics of the region. [...]
Nesibe Hicret Battaloglu | 02 March 2021
On its tenth anniversary, the social, political and economic repercussions of the Arab uprisings are still being felt across the Middle East. Simon Mabon’s latest book focuses on the historical,
Mehmet Alaca | 02 March 2021
Specifically, the book discusses the roots, trajectories, and consequences of the Arab uprisings for the region. It consists of nine chapters that focus on the greater region, from Tunisia and Egypt to the unrelieved chaos in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen
