Authors

Laurie A. Brand

 

Laurie A. Brand is the Robert Grandford Wright Professor of international relations and Middle East studies at the University of Southern California. She is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (2004), currently chairs its Committee on Academic Freedom, and directs USC’s Middle East Studies Program. A four-time Fulbright scholar to the Middle East and North Africa, a Carnegie Scholar 2008-10, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident Scholar in fall 2012, she is the author of Palestinians in the Arab World: Institution Building and the Search for State (Columbia, 1988); Jordan’s Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making (Columbia, 1994); Women, the State and Political Liberalization (Columbia, 1998); Citizens Abroad: States and Migration in the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge, 2006), and Official Stories: Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria (Stanford, 2014).

ARTICLES BY Laurie A. Brand