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Friday, December 31, 2021

The 2021 MENA Region Dictator of the Year Award جائزة دكتاتور العام في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا لعام 2021

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As 2021 draws to a close, it is clear that authoritarian rule will continue to dominate most of the countries of the MENA region. Given the ...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Old Wine in New Bottles: The Myth of the "New" Taliban and Strength of its Islamic Emirate

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When the Taliban effortlessly occupied Kabul this past August 15 th , it appeared as if they would finally be in control of Afghanistan afte...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Iraq's Parliamentary Elections: A First Step Towards a True Democracy in Iraq?

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The engineer candidate - Reem 'Abd al-Khaliq 'Abd al-Hadi On October 3 rd , Iraq held parliamentary elections.    Although the resul...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

The Terrorist Attacks of 9/11: What Have We Learned?

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The September 11, 2001 National Memorial, New York City The solemn commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks this ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

A Tale of Two Cultures - the US Debacle in Afghanistan. د دوه کلتورونو کیسه - په افغانستان کې د متحده ایالاتو ماتې

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Afghan Taliban at the presidential palace in Kabul, Aug 15, 2021 What happened in Afghanistan? The government and security forces’ rapid col...
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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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