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Below are resources looking at the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. 

·   Aarts, P. and Van Duijne, J., 2009. Saudi...

Below is an organic list of academic work on sectarianism. We're updating it as we go. 

·   Abdo, G., 2017. The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi'a-Sunni Divide. Oxford Universit...

Over the course of the past 15 years, a great deal of work has been undertaken which sought to understand the emergence and characteristics of sectarian politics. Supporting this are a number of projects such as SEPAD and its sister project, Read More

CALL FOR SUBMISSION

Haḍra invites all submissions on any topic related to the Middle East region – politics, sociology, economy, law, political geography, anthropology, political theory, among ...

The Sectarianism, Proxies, and De-Sectarianism Project held its inaugural conference Sectarianism, Proxies, and De-Sectarianism Across the Middle East on the 28th of March 2019 in the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at Lancaster U...

Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Struggle to Shape the Middle East is the first report from SEPAD, theSectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianisation project, funded by Carnegie Corporation. The report examines the increasingly fractious rivalry between S...

The Sectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianism project and the Richardson Institute is hosting a one-day conference in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University on the subject of sectarianism, proxies and de-se...