The New Middle East

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Impeachment, the Iran Crisis and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

What impact will the soon to commence impeachment inquiry, conducted by the US House of Representatives, have on the foreign policy...

Friday, August 30, 2019

The Return of the Da'ish and What Must Be Done to Stop It

The liberation of Mosul from the Da c ish, July 2017 The world rejoiced when Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Services defeated Da c ish...

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About Me

Eric Davis: Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast

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