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Ten years after the Arab Uprisings, the struggle between rulers and ruled continues to shape the contours of political life across the region. Central to these struggles are questions about citizenship and its capacity to order political and socia...

Following the Uprising of Dignity in Bahrain from 1994 to 1999, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa came into power.  In 2001, he promulgated the National Action Charter of Bahrain which received overwhelming support by referendum. The...

After the 2011 Arab Spring protests, relations between Kuwait and Iran faced a number of challenges stemming from Kuwait's support for the GCC intervention in Yemen, the arrest of Iranian spy cells by the Kuwaiti authorities, and the maritime...

Sects and the City II

In recent years, politics across the Middle East and beyond has been shaped by myriad forms of social movement contestation that have fed into the re-imagining of relations between rule...

In recent years a great amount of literature has been produced looking at the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran (Mabon, Keynoush, Mason, Fraihat, Rubin). In spite of this, little work has been done looking at the role of oil in the rivalry. In...

Within the study of sectarianism there is a growing interest in the role of discourse.  The sectarianisation and de-sectarianisation literature seeks to explore how actors construct and reconstruct different meanings of Sectarianism to s...

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CALL FOR PAPERS: 10 Years On: The People and the Protests

 December 17-18 2020

On 17th December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, self-immolated, triggering...

The schedule for our Ten Years On conference is now finalised. Featuring keynote lectures from Professor Mehran Kamrava and Professor Salwa Ismail the event brings together senior scholars and early career academics to reflect on the 10th ann...

This episode of SEPADDiscusses Political Repression in Bahrain  by Marc Owen Jones. Chaired by Simon Mabon, the event features Staci Strobl as discussant. 

The event will take place on zoom and will require registr...

This episode of SEPADDiscusses the latest update of The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East by Chris Phillips. Chaired by Simon Mabon, the event features Rahaf Aldoughli and Samer Abboud as...

This episode of SEPADDiscusses Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf by Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky. Chaired by Simon Mabon, the event features Rory Miller and Imad Mansour as discussants.