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Please join us (online) tomorrow: Conversations from Beirut with deborah amos from Princeton University and Ohannes Geukjian from American University of Beirut moderated by Amaney Jamal. Register here --> princeton.zoom.us/webinar/regist… APSA MENA Politics Section POMEPS The Bobst Center

Back #onhere to share my Foreign Affairs piece with Andrew Leber about our recent Security Studies findings + interesting polling from Chris Shell American Statecraft Program and a Chicago Council on Global Affairs team including Deborah Avant, Craig Kafura, Candace Rondeaux et al.

foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

The look on Tracy Chapman's face when the crowd realizes its her

The Midwest Workshop in Empirical Political Science (MWEPS) is now accepting applications for its Spring 2024 meeting! The 11th meeting of MWEPS will be held in-person at the Department of Political Science at Penn State on Friday, March 29, 2024. Link: forms.gle/7pKsQU3RumToSv…

With Argentina's Presidential runoff scheduled for this Sunday, I would say that our article on the timing of corruption lawsuits during elections in Argentina is exceptionally well-timed!

What a time to see this article in print! I guess it is never too early or too late to argue that people should try to understand others' feelings and experiences ... and that doing so helps you act in ways that are both ethical and smart. #CeasefireNOW

Hiring a part-time RA Oxford Politics and IR for the Economic and Social Research Council project 'Nonviolent Repression in Electoral Autocracies'

Survey research & protest-event analysis. Funding for training & conferences.

More about the project on its website nonviolent-repression.co.uk & thread.

New Interview: I talked to Sari Bashi of Human Rights Watch about her specific concerns regarding Israel’s military action, the challenges of evacuating Gaza, and how human-rights advocates wrestle with different kinds of atrocities. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

Applications are open for the Princeton Dissertation Scholars Program! Now in its 3rd year, this program offers dissertation support for non-Princeton PhD students from around the US. Details and application here: bobst.princeton.edu/graduate-fundi… Please share!

MA and PhD students interested in political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): join our workshop on research development + design at AUC, fully funded! Deadline: September 17, 2023 #APSA #MENAResearch #ScholarshipOpportunity
الشبكة العربية للعلوم السياسية (APSN)
APSA MENA Politics Section

#Egypt Targets Activists in Presidential Election Run-up p.dw.com/p/4Vp5G?maca=e… DW News coverage including my comments: 'Arresting family members of dissidents living abroad has been a systematic pattern used by the Egyptian government to silence critics'

My latest Foreign Policy

How Sisi Ruined Egypt

'A decade or so after Egyptians rose up demanding bread, freedom, and social justice, they have none of those things.'

foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/09/egy…

This piece is so excellent for so many reasons - but in particular for a) rigorously theorizing emotions in politics and b) how movements are sustained without favorable political opportunity structures. Mabrouk Nermin Allam!

An Egyptian graduate student and human rights advocate accused of spreading “fake news” was sentenced to three years in prison in Egypt, a harsh conclusion to a case that had inspired a mass outpouring of support in Italy, where he studied, and in Egypt. nyti.ms/3DkCua8

So much amazing work featured here! Congrats to all and very excited to read

My paper where I examine value-based cleavages in Tunisia is officially out at Political Behavior available at: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

This week, the paywall is removed across The Washington Post: you can read any articles for free.

Consider reading and sharing my piece about my 10-year politically-incarcerated best friend, Ayman Moussa, as tomorrow arrives his 22nd Eid in prison.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Congrats to Allison P. Harris on such important work: cup.org/3ps7Xny. As % black judges in US courthouses increases, white judges less likely to render incarceration for black defendants. Important conceptual point too: diversity is a *group* not individual characteristic.