Teaching Jenny White’s Kaleidoscope gave students valuable, graspable, everyday perspectives onto political violence in 1970s Turkey. A full course of reading MENA politics through graphic novels is something I would love to take/teach.

Huge congratulations to rockstar scholar Sibel Oktay on her book award at #ISA2024 . It’s a brilliant and extremely well-written analysis of coalition politics in foreign policy. One of her many valuable contributions to FPA - tebrikler!

The brightest of many highlights at #ISA2024 .

It was an honor to be on this all-women panel on Turkey’s democratic prospects.

The scholarly team of Sebnem Gumuscu and Berk is a serious force. Not only are they some of the most incisive and insightful voices on Turkish politics, and authoritarianism more broadly, but they can write while conferencing #ISA2024 .

We just finished Week 55 of our post-earthquake Zoom writing group. I hosted a few times from #ISA2024 , and thanks to group members like Devrim Yavuz we still had a full week of sessions for writing in a virtual community. Interested Turkey and Syria scholars, please reach out!

Conferencing with Turkey recap close by at all times #ISA2024 .

Their latest election podcast is out, with comments from me, Sebnem Gumuscu, Selin Nasi, and Michael Sercan Daventry.

I'm honored to add a media lens to this important and timely roundtable: The Future of Turkish Democracy. If you're at #ISA2024 tomorrow, please join us!

We argue regimes calculate they can get away with more visible, harsher tactics - denial of certificate, replacement - against minority mayors in combating local opposition gains. Democratic subversions like Van didn't provoke wide outcry in the past. Hope this time's different

My paper with Harun Ercan on subnational democratization in Turkey, authoritarian pushback, and the role of identity in all of this is under review. Hopefully coming to a journal near you soon!

Hearing İmamoğlu's voice drown out Erdoğan's as the broadcast cut to him was a moment.

CHP leader Özgür Özel’s speech hit a bunch of high notes so this might get missed: Just because the opposition can win doesn’t mean elections are free and fair. The media’s still tilted, politicians still jailed, etc. Commentators shouldn’t conflate outcomes with constraints.

In the last day of our post-earthquake Zoom writing group’s 53rd week, we had a super instructive webinar from Mehtap Söyler. Today, a participant submitted an article, and multiple participants worked on conference papers and dissertation chapters. Please contact me to join!

Join us today at 5:30pm! We're hosting Prof. Joe F. Khalil to unpack the digital turn in the Middle East.

Co-hosted by our SAIS Media and Politics Initiative and the SAIS MENA Club SAIS Media & Politics MENA Club at SAIS

Register: eventbrite.com/e/the-digital-…

Happening this Thursday! Join SAIS Media & Politics for a discussion with Prof. Joe F. Khalil on The Digital Double Bind.

We'll unpack the technological, regional, and socio-political factors that shaped - and are shaped by - the Middle East's digital turn.

Register: eventbrite.com/e/the-digital-…

Today our post-earthquake Zoom group hit 52 weeks and we're still going. Participants have finished dissertations, articles, and more.

Thinking about hosting a group to support your own community? Here's a blueprint I created, open access PS: Political Science & Politics
bit.ly/3UJo6lz

Excited to announce that “The Digital Double Bind,' co-authored with Mohamed Zayani, will be the focus of my book talk at IMES! Join me on Thursday, March 21st, at 3 PM at The Elliott School, with as discussant William Lafi Youmans, director of IPDGC. Oxford Academic

Neat Post-Doc opportunity on #Global #Governance & IOs.
Tine Hanrieder Dr. Joanne Yao Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni Nina Reiners Veronica Anghel Dr. Alexandra C Budabin
Spread the word.

Working on identity, media, and (de-)democratization?
Abstracts due March 15 for our SAIS Media & Politics Media Diversity and Democracy Workshop on May 3. Early career scholars of all disciplines encouraged to apply. Travel funding available.

Details here: liselhintz.com/sais-mpi.html.

Three weeks left until the local elections in Turkey. What to expect? What are the key races? Recap radio is here to answer these questions.

We are starting in Hatay, and will cover Antalya, Diyarbakır and Istanbul.

Subscribe and listen!

Recap radio is out!

Our local election podcast series starts with Hatay, where the ruling AKP and opposition CHP fell short on initial quake aid and both are now competing for votes.

Azra Ceylan reports with comments from Berk and Gonca Tokyol.

open.spotify.com/episode/1PaXVN…