Authors

Hendrik Kraetzschmar and Paola Rivetti

Hendrik Kraetzschmar is Associate Professor in the Comparative Politics of the MENA at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles on electoral, associational and party politics in the Middle East and North Africa and is the editor of Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World: Contentious Politics in Times of Change (2012) and co-editor of Democracy and Violence: Global Debates and Local Challenges (2010).

Paola Rivetti is an Assistant Professor in Politics of the Middle East and International Relations at Dublin City University (Ireland). In 2017, she was awarded the ‘Early-Career Researcher of the Year’ Prize by the Irish Research Council and in 2018, she received the ‘DCU President’s Award for Early-Career Researcher’. Paola’s research interests focus on the government of societies and polities in the Middle East and North Africa from a comparative perspective; and on social and political mobilizations. She also works on migration in and from the region, and on academic freedom in Europe and the Middle East. She authored numerous academic and non-academic publications on these topics, published in several languages (Persian, English, French, Spanish, Italian – full list here). She is part of a number of research initiatives, and she also engages the media, in non-academic activities and public speaking. In March 2018, she delivered a TED talk for Trinity College Dublin.

ARTICLES BY Hendrik Kraetzschmar and Paola Rivetti