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On Tuesday, 20 June, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Houda Mzioudet about Tunisia’s escalating counter-revolution. This episode of Connections examines the autocracy established by President Kais Saied, and his resort to violent xenophobia to consolidate his position.

Join us on Tuesday, 20 June for a conversation with Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Houda Mzioudet about Tunisia’s escalating counter-revolution. This episode of Connections will examine the autocracy established by President Kais Saied, and his resort to violent xenophobia..

On Tuesday, 15 February Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Tunisian journalist Mohamed Haddad about Tunisian President Kais Saied’s consolidation of power since his suspension of parliament in July 2021. This episode of Connections examines Tunisia’s new autocracy and Tuni..

Join us on Tuesday, 15 February for a discussion between Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Tunisian journalist Mohamed Haddad about Tunisian President Kais Saied’s consolidation of power since his suspension of parliament in..

Eight years ago, in late May 2013, people in Turkey woke up to the news that the tents of peaceful protestors in Istanbul’s Gezi Park were set on fire by the police. What followed was months of mass protests. The Gezi Park protests initially aimed at protecting the Gezi public park in the middle..

Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah’s justification for Islamic autocracy is far from a throwback to an imagined premodern world of Muslim scholars united with pious sultans, but rather, deeply indebted to the reformist idioms of Islamic modernism. Indeed, the key reason that modern Islamic autocracy enj..

[Click here for Part One: The Limits of Electoral Democracy]

The first part of this article examined the parallel constriction of citizens’ rights and parliamentary aut..

Egypt and Syria are absorbing attention in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Gulf, but not so much that the treatment of domestic dissidents has slipped off the agenda. When it comes to civil liberties, Kuwait was an outlier among its Gulf peers. Its constitution enumerates a list of citizen rights an..

Joshua Stacher, Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. 

Jadaliyya: What made you write this book?

Joshua Stacher: Th..