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POMEPS Middle East Political Science PodcastResearch Ethics and Israel's Annexation of the West Bank (S. 12, Ep. 30)On this week's episode of the podcast, Rabab El Mahdi of the American University in Cairo, Janine Clark of the University of Toronto, Laryssa Chomiak of Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), and Rima Majed of the American University of Beirut join Marc Lynch to discuss the ethical challenges and positionally of research. (Starts at 1:41). Dahlia Scheindlin of Century International and Yael Berda of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to discuss their new article, "Israel’s Annexation of the West Bank Has Already Begun," published in Foreign Affairs. (Starts at 36:37).
Thank you for listening to Season 12 of the POMEPS Middle E...2023-06-201h 06
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsState-Building and Women in TunisiaEpisode 141: State-Building and Women in Tunisia
In this conversation, Amy Kallander reflects on how the work of Tunisian scholars on trade unions, feminism, and patriarchy informed her approach to thinking critically about state-building in the first decades after independence. Placing ideas about gender and women’s rights in relation to broader debates about cultural decolonization, transnational political movements, pan-Arab and Maghribi intellectual projects and the power dynamics of the Cold War era offers insights on thinking intersectionally and local articulations of global phenomena. Drawing from her new book Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the G...2022-05-0532 min
POMEPS Middle East Political Science PodcastBread and Freedom, Which Protests Count, Recent Political Developments in Tunisia (S. 11, Ep. 1)Mona El Ghobashy of New York University talks about her latest book, Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book is a multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history. (Starts at 1:28). Killian Clarke of Georgetown University speaks about his new article entitled, "Which protests count? Coverage bias in Middle East event datasets," published by Mediterranean Politics. (Starts at 31:48). Laryssa Chomiak, the Director of Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis, to talk about recent political developments in Tunisia. (Starts at 47:05).
Music for this season's podcast was created by...2021-09-091h 04
Five QuestionsWhere Does Tunisia Go from Here?Laryssa Chomiak and Yousef Munayyer discuss the constitutional crisis in Tunisia which started after Kais Saied sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament. Chomiak is the director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT).2021-08-1223 min
POMEPS Middle East Political Science PodcastPOMEPS 12th Annual Conference Part 1 (S. 10, Ep. 23)This special episode features a round-table discussion from the POMEPS 12th Annual Conference, which was held on June 9-10, 2021.
The panel, "Confronting Old and New Obstacles to Political Science Research," features five scholars:
Nermin Allam, Assistant Professor of Politics at Rutgers University
Mert Arslanalp, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bogazici University
Laryssa Chomiak, Director of the Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT)
Jannis Julien Grimm, Freie Universität Berlin, Member of the Executive Board and Associated Researcher at the Institute for Protest and Social Movement Studies in Berlin (ipb)
Sarah Parkinson, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at John...2021-06-1755 min
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsConversation with Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui: Reflections on Tunisia's State Building History and Contemporary Democratization ExperienceEpisode 102: Conversation with Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui: Reflections on Tunisia's State Building History and Contemporary Democratization Experience
In this discussion, Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui reflect on Tunisia's post-independence state-building history and the country's contemporary democratization experience. The conversation draws listeners to the transformative moments that preceded the 2011 Revolution, which had subsequent pivotal effects. Reflecting on their own intellectual and professional engagement with Tunisia, the speakers underscore the shortcomings of minimalist and purely institutional academic approaches to the study and practice of democracy.
Prof. Anderson is the James T. Shotwell Professor Emirita of International Rela...2021-01-1337 min
Geneva Peace WeekSocial cohesion as a core dimension of building better social contracts: MENA country reflectionsA podcast by University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, DIE (German Development Institute), Center for Maghrebian Studies in Tunis.
As the search for more reliable pathways for peace grows in our increasingly complex and polarised world, the social contract concept is drawing interest from policymakers and scholars focused on peacebuilding, as well as states and societies pursuing peaceful change.
This podcast explores the role of social cohesion in social contracts, both as a driver and an indicator of their realisation. It investigates these issues through two Arab Spring countries – Tunisia and Yemen. While Arab Spring settings of...2020-10-301h 18
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsThe Buffalo Agency: Maghribi Ibadis in Cairo, 1850-1950Episode 92: The Buffalo Agency: Maghribi Ibadis in Cairo, 1850-1950
In this interview, Paul Love discusses the early stages of his new book project on the history of Ibadi Muslims from the Maghrib who lived, worked, and studied in Ottoman Cairo. Tentatively titled The Buffalo Agency: Ibadi Muslims in Ottoman Cairo, the book follows the history of a trade agency, school, and library known as the ‘Buffalo Agency’ (Wikalat al-jamus), operated by Ibadis for nearly four centuries in the Tulun district of Cairo. From its founding in the 17th to century to its closure in the 20th, the Agency s...2020-04-2926 min
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsThe Arab Transformations Project
Episode 86: The Arab Transformations Project
In this podcast, Professor Andrea Teti discusses the findings of the Arab Transformations Project. Led by Aberdeen University, the project carried out public surveys in seven Arab countries in late 2014 and compiled a longitudinal database. According to the survey data, Professor Andrea Teti examines the economic, social and political transformations in the region. The survey observations indicate challenging popular perceptions in relation to a broad range of topics such as: corruption, youth, democracy, migration, gender, religion, security and stability, and Eu-MENA relations.
The analysis of the surveys data shows that, contrary...2020-02-1930 min
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsMaking the Dinar, Producing the State in Independent TunisiaEpisode 78: Making the Dinar, Producing the State in Independent Tunisia
This interview focuses on the archives around the creation of the Tunisian Central Bank and the Tunisian dinar in 1958/1959. Looking at these documents as material assemblages, help illuminate how the making of national currency is a process that links state power and the production of the economy. Indeed, the entanglements between economic imaginaries and state power are revealed through the body of money, as national currency becomes a privileged site of intervention for the state. By considering different archives, that of the Central Bank along with state...2019-12-0411 min
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsInterview avec Pr. Mohammed Kerrou sur son dernier livre : L’Autre RévolutionEpisode 60: Interview avec Pr. Mohammed Kerrou sur son dernier livre : L’Autre Révolution
Dans ce Podcast, Pr. Mohammed Kerrou, professeur de sciences politiques à la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Politiques de Tunis, Université de Tunis El-Manar, revient sur son nouvel ouvrage, L'autre révolution (Cérès Éditions, 2018). L'ouvrage est une série de réflexions sur les transformations politiques et sociales en Tunisie depuis la révolution de 2011. Pr. Kerrou examine comment les tendances politiques postrévolutionnaires ont soulevé des questions théoriques autour des termes « rupture » et « continuité ». Il pose des questions sur la nature de l'État et le...2019-03-1340 min
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsInterview with Max AjlEpisode 29: Interview with Max Ajl
Max Ajl is a doctoral student in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, and will graduate in late Spring 2018. His work focuses on and contributes to the study of historical sociology, environmental justice, agrarian change, planning, and heterodox Arab / North African social thought. His research is focused on the MENA region, with a particular focus on Tunisia. His work has been published widely, including in Historical Materialism, Review of African Political Economy, Middle East Report, and popular publications like teleSUR. He is an editor at Jadaliyya and Viewpoint.
In...2018-03-2831 min
Maghrib in Past & Present | PodcastsInterview with Nadia MarzoukiEpisode 5: Interview with Nadia Marzouki
Islam: An American Religion
[in English]
Dr. Nadia Marzouki is a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her work examines public controversies about Islam in Europe and the United States. She is also interested in debates about religious freedom and democratization in North Africa. She is the author of Islam: An American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2017). She coedited with Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell, Saving the People, How Populists Hijack Religion (Oxford University Press, 2016)....2017-10-1725 min
The Tunisian Revolution: Origins, Course and AftermathArchitecture of Dissent in Ben Ali’s Tunisia: 2001-2011Laryssa Chomiak (Centre d’études maghrébines à Tunis) gives the first talk in Part 1: Origins of the Revolution, part of The Tunisian Revolution: Origins, Course and Aftermath2014-10-2716 min