I wrote about the history, recent events, and the Assad regime's rule in Syria for TIME Made by History section madebyhistory. You can read it here: time.com/7202600/syria-…

Applications are open for the 2025 PWH-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize! This $5K prize encourages scholars to translate their academic work to be more accessible to policymakers. The winning essay will be published by Foreign Affairs Apply: apply.interfolio.com/160835

NEW ISSUE from Perspectives on Politics - Perspectives on Politics - Volume 22 - Issue 4 - cup.org/3DDlHT6 Special Section: Migrant Acceptance and Inclusion

🚨Elections, Right-wing Populism, & Political-Economic Polarization🚨One of my dissertation chapters is now available Journal of Politics @[email protected]! How have right-wing populists attracted at-risk workers 🧑‍🏭🤖 once loyal to mainstream left parties in majoritarian multi-district and PR systems? 🧵1/n

📚 Just released! "Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa" explores critical governance reforms across MENA. Editors @KristenKao & Ellen Lust, featuring 14 regional specialists. Open Access via @UMichPress mailchi.mp/gld.gu.se/new-…

Check out our latest piece with our team at bicc - Bonn Internat. Centre for Conflict Studies, discussing Syrian refugee returns. Available now on Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Rückkehr nach Syrien braucht Zeit und Sicherheit shorturl.at/snu1w Time, safety and stability key to refugee return to Syria shorturl.at/9eYke

Al-Khazneh is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom. It is thought that it was built at the beginning of the 1st century CE.

As the convenors Aykut Öztürk we are happy to share the Spring program for the PSA Turkish Politics Online Workshops (TPOWs) PSA Turkish Politics The registration information for the TPOWs will be here soon. psaturkishpolitics.uk

Excited to share our piece for TIME with Serhun AL, exploring the history of Kurdish struggles for autonomy across the Middle East. You can read it here: time.com/7207397/kurdis…

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs 📅 Four years, with a 25% teaching/administration requirement 🇳🇴 University of Oslo ⌛ Saturday 15 February ow.ly/GLJt50UuRi1

📣 Submit your papers now for our conference with UChicago | Stone Center on Inequality & Mobility and the Institute for Applied Economic Research. We invite scholars whose papers address inequality and mobility in cross-cultural contexts. 🔗 Submit here: buff.ly/4hZFc74 📅 Deadline: 19 March 2025

Excited to share that our article, "Humanitarian NGOs and Psychosocial Services for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United States," co-authored with Danielle Wollerman, has been published in the Journal of Migration and Development! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

🧵 1/ How do local politics shape where refugees want to live in the host states? In our new study (w/ Sefa Secen & Aykut Öztürk ), we examine the internal destination preferences of Syrian refugees in Turkey and Germany. The results are important.👇

cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🚨 Super excited to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review American Political Science Review Quick thread below🧵

"Biraz zaman geçsin her şeyi unutursun. Biraz zaman geçsin, her şey seni unutur." —Marcus Aurelius

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” ― Paulo Coelho

Happy to share this reading list which includes over 350 articles, books, and policy reports related to Syrian politics and the civil war in Syria. I’ll keep updating this initial list with new research, topics, and Arabic sources markberlin2.com/civil-war-in-s…

I wrote a short piece for Eurasia Review, Russia’s Forgotten Minority: The Ahiska Turks And The Geopolitics Of Ethnic Marginalization.

The thing about fragility is-with every crack, the structure becomes more irreparable.

I wrote a short article, “Competitive Multilateralism and the Future of Global Governance,” for E-International Relations. In this piece, I explore how liberal internationalism is giving way to a more fragmented and competitive form of multilateralism. e-ir.info/2025/07/23/com…