Seasoned humanitarians do not operate this way because it's a terribly risky and ineffective way to deliver aid. Quick 🧵 on what seems to have gone wrong, and why nothing about today's events was surprising. (subtitle: humanitarians know stuff, actually)

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🧵

A key line in this new The New York Times story: "Contrary to Israeli claims, senior administration officials were unaware of any new intelligence showing that the Iranians were rushing to build a nuclear bomb — a move that would justify a pre-emptive strike."

Delighted to share that I successfully defended my dissertation! Titled “Barriers and Bridges: Essays on Local-Migrant Dynamics and Refugee Integration,” it examines how local communities respond to refugees, drawing on survey experiments to study the roles of aid framing, online

My latest research paper on a topic that is urgent & necessary. Academics with access to journals: doi.org/10.1080/136980… Non-academics or people with no access to journals (limit - 50 free downloads): tandfonline.com/eprint/NC3GWBY… #Jordan #Gramsci #authority #decolonial #postcolonial

My new article with Jessica Trounstine shows hundreds of city governments had organized employees by the 1930s-1950s. Despite different legal contexts before 1960, the timing & location of early public-sector organization had more in common with private-sector organization than is often

New preprint with Christiana Parreira and Lindsay Walsh posted to @SocArXiv: "From Protest to Parliament: Lebanon’s October Revolution and the Rise of Movement Parties." Link: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Interesting look by Colin Powers at Saudi real estate under Vision 2030 - taking on debt, drawing in foreign multinationals, enriching those with pre-existing financial stakes, and financializing home ownership (with attendant risks). phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sv-20…

Great graphic from Biff Parker-Magyar's article, showing how contention in Jordan has almost entirely shifted from socioeconomic issues towards Gaza, even as the government effectively shutters the teachers union, one of the last remaining channels of dissent.

I would love for someone who has experience in a social movement to zoom into my undergrad class this fall and share. Minimal prep: orient us 5-10 min, then Q&A. In past, we learned about participation in uprisings in Syria and Hong Kong, and US labor (during a strike!). Thx!

Call for applications now open! APSA MENA Methods Workshop on Engaged Research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) web.apsanet.org/mena/

آخر ما وثقته مصورة اندبندنت عربية مريم أبو دقة قبل مقتلها في قصف إسرائيلي: موجة نزوح جديدة من مدينة غزة باتجاه وسط القطاع وجنوبه #نكمن_في_التفاصيل

“A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups.” nytimes.com/2025/08/25/cli…

POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info: pomeps.org/pomeps-junior-…

We will (again) be organizing PS-Prep this year. I especially encourage (and hope to speak with) students from outside the US to apply, to understand an applicational system that is different, voluminous and complicated. I will also encourage students early in their degree to ...

From struggling with water scarcity in Amman to inventing a revolutionary substance capable of extracting water from thin air, this is the story of Jordanian scientist Omar Yaghi, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today! 1/

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