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December 17, 2020 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia. Beginning in 2011, mass uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East, spreading from the shores of Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and the Eastern Province of the Arabian Peninsula. ..

During the height of the mass uprisings against authoritarian rule, excitement about the prospects for a more just and representative political order across the Arab region was often tempered by questions concerning the role that Islamist parties would play in post-authoritarian transitions. Mov..

During the height of the mass uprisings against authoritarian rule, excitement about the prospects for a more just and representative political order across the Arab region was often tempered by questions concerning the role that Islamist parties would play in post-authoritarian transitions. Mov..

Since 2013, I have been teaching modules of Politics of the Middle East at Dublin City University. I realized the need for a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of the transformation of Islamist politics post-2011, mainly because of the somewhat scattered st..

The Muslim Brotherhood has been one of my research interests since I was a doctoral student, so the events of the Arab Spring in Egypt and across the Maghreb were especially interesting to me. A good amount of the existing literature, and certainly the popular media, tends to make sweeping..

Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, The Shi‘ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014.

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The first round of legislative and municipal elections held in Mauritania on 23 November signified the end of a two-year period of a parliamentary limbo. The country has been mired in a sustained constitutional crisis since 2011, when..

On Friday 25 November 2011, one week after the Mohamed Mahmoud events, I was standing near one of the entrances to the Sadat metro station, its tunnels spreading beneath Tahrir Square like a spider’s web. I saw a man wearing a heavy brown galabeya turn to a man walk..

Islamists in Turkey: from the Rule of Law to the Law of Some

Koray Çalışkan will be presenting on Sunday 10 November 2013,..

Following deadly clashes that broke out early Monday morning between the military and Muslim Brotherhood supporters in front of the Republic Guard headquarters, killing dozens, Islamists are once again the target of sweeping a..

Following the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi, analysts and political figures say efforts should be exerted to keep Egypt`s oldest Islamist group within the political fold.

While millions of Egyptians were flocking to Tahrir Square and other squares around the nation i..

Egypt`s Public Prosecution continues to issue arrest warrants for leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political party on suspicion of inciting violence against protesters. At least thirty people were killed in clashes that followed a military order ousting former President Mohamed&..

Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will meet on Wednesday with the general commanders of the Egyptian Armed Forces, at the Defense Ministry headquarters, to discuss recent domestic developments as Wednesday`s forty-eight-hour deadline approaches. 

Mohamed ElBaradei, delegated by th..

Opposition coalitions, Islamist alliances and Egypt`s armed forces – among others – all offer `roadmaps` aimed at ending country`s precarious political standoff

A number of roadmaps and initiatives were proposed over the last few days as a way out of the current crisis in Egypt, several of..

It was bound to happen. And we are simply witnessing its tip: growing opposition to the militant opposition, on similar ethical grounds used to critique the regime. 

First, some basic related observations are in order.

The fol..

Suddenly, and in the same week, three of the largest Islamist movements started talking about transitional justice, demanding its implementation at once. Spokesman for the Salfist front, Hisham Kamal, asserted, "Mubarak should have been tried for all his crimes from the

“Woman and the constitution: Fear of woman’s marginalization rules over all” blared an April 2012 headline in

The Haqq Battalions Gathering, a militant group in the Hama province,announced in mid-April 2013 that they are joining the Syrian Islamic Front(SIF). This is the first time since the SIF’s creation in December 2012 that an independent out..

There is nothing that prompts us to encourage revolution as it is enshrined in danger...It just comes when profound reform has stumbled.— Salman al-Awdah

Like all of us watching the Arab world in the last two years, Saudi ..

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