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  • Common Sense: Between Democratic Promise and Political Peril

    Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.

    March 2, 2026
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The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 4, 2025
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5 things you might not expect of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East

Drawing on a long history of Christian-Muslim coexistence, Anna Hager explores the nuances and complexities of interfaith relations in the Middle East

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • November 8, 2024
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Heritage and Identity: Debunking 5 myths about Middle Eastern Christians

By Elizabeth Marteijn Recent tragedies in the Middle East brought more attention to Christians living in the region. Events such as a series of popular uprisings (‘Arab Spring’) and humanitarian disasters in countries such as Syria and Iraq, have made…

  • Kevin Worrall
  • October 28, 2022

The Future of the Energy Transition for Middle East Gulf Economies Post Pandemic

By Jamil Hijazi, Jessica Obeid and Michel-Ange Medlej Jamil Hijazi and co-authors (Jessica Obeid and Michael-Ange Medlej) navigate the future of the Energy Transition in the Middle East Gulf Economies Post COVID-19 ahead of their upcoming article in the Global…

  • Teri Williams
  • October 19, 2020

My First Day in Camp with the Piruzai – Afghanistan, 1971

By Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper In 1971 and 1972 Richard Tapper and I lived with Afghan villagers for nearly a year. The Piruzai, some 200 families, lived in two small settlements near the town of Sar-e Pol in northern Afghanistan. They were…

  • Teri Williams
  • June 19, 2020
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Health Service Provision Challenges in 19th-century Afghanistan and Now

By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that have made the country a site of international intervention by medical experts. Indeed, it was the fifth international cholera epidemic…

  • Teri Williams
  • May 25, 2020
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Does the British government learn from the history of military interventions?

From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.

  • Naomi Farmer
  • January 9, 2019
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