Pomeps Conversations

On this week's POMEPS Conversation, Merouan Mekouar speaks with Marc Lynch about the challenges facing Morocco now. Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. Mekouar's research focuses on authoritarian resilience, revolutions, and behavior in the MENA region.

Justin Gengler is a senior researcher at the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) of Qatar University. He is the author of the book Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf: Rethinking the Rentier State (Indiana University Press, May 2015).

Steven Brooke speaks with Marc Lynch about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt over the past five years and prospects for future study of the group. Brooke is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard University and will be an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville beginning in the fall of 2016.

Sean Yom speaks with Marc Lynch about his new book, "From Resilience to Revolution," and the role of foreign and domestic actors in Middle East politics.

Michaelle Browers speaks with Marc Lynch about intellectuals in the Middle East, and the growth of a new generation of scholars and political theorists.

Marc Lynch sat down with Jillian Schwedler to discuss economic development and the effects of the Arab Spring in Jordan. Schwedler, a professor of political science at Hunter College, is the author of "Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations and Coercion" and "Faith in Moderation: Islamist parties in Jordan and Yemen."

This conversation is with Hesham Sallam of Stanford University. He speaks with Marc Lynch about competing narratives of the Egyptian revolution.

Stacey Philbrick Yadav speaks with Marc Lynch about the ongoing civil war in Yemen and the difficulty of an enduring resolution. Yadav is associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

A conversation with Lindsay J. Benstead about who votes for women, and why, in the Middle East. Benstead is noted for her work in survey methodology and public opinion in the Middle East. Benstead is an assistant professor of political science in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, where she teaches courses on Middle East and North African politics and research methods.

The George Washington University's Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, with Michael Wahid Hanna & Thanassis Cambanis of The Century Foundation. They talk about the upcoming fifth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on January 25, and the challenges facing Egypt today.

A conversation about the current challenges and opportunities facing Egypt between Nathan Brown and Marc Lynch.