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Dana El Kurd

Dana El Kurd, of Jerusalem, Palestine, received her PhD in Government from The University of Texas at Austin in June 2017. She is currently a Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and an Assistant Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in the Critical Security Studies program. She specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations. Theoretically, Dana is interested in the conflicts between states and their societies and the contentious politics they produce. She examines how authoritarian regimes try to implement policies and how external intervention may affect their success. Substantively, Dana is interested in international involvement and authoritarianism within the Arab world. Her multi-method research focuses on how authoritarian regimes in the Arab world have maintained durability, as well as the societal impact of this authoritarianism on political engagement. She has been published in Foreign AffairsThe Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, and Al-Araby al-Jadeed, as well as academic journals such as ParametersJournal of Global Security StudiesContemporary Arab AffairsMiddle East Law and GovernanceJournal of Arabian Studies, and more.

ARTICLES BY Dana El Kurd