• POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast

  • By: Marc Lynch
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POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast

By: Marc Lynch
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  • Discussing news and innovations in the Middle East.
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  • Zanzibar Was a Country (S. 13, Ep. 25)

    Zanzibar Was a Country (S. 13, Ep. 25)
    Apr 25 2024
    On this week's episode of the podcast, Nathaniel Mathews of Binghamton University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf. This book traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. The stories of postrevolution exiles and emigrés from Zanzibar provide a framework for the broader transregional entanglements of decolonization in Africa and the Arabian Gulf. Using both vernacular historiography and life histories of men and women from the community, Nathaniel Mathews argues that the traumatic memories of the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964 are important to nation-building on both sides of the Indian Ocean. Music for this season’s podcast was created by Malika Zarra. You can find more of her work on Instagram and Linktree.
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    51 mins
  • Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (S. 13, Ep. 24)

    Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (S. 13, Ep. 24)
    Apr 18 2024
    On this week's episode of the podcast, Zachary Lockman of New York University joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States. This book reconstructs the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States, focusing on Middle East studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. Lockman shows how the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations played key roles in conceiving, funding, and launching postwar area studies, expecting them to yield a new kind of interdisciplinary knowledge that would advance the social sciences while benefiting government agencies and the American people. Music for this season’s podcast was created by Malika Zarra. You can find more of her work on Instagram and Linktree.
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    1 hr
  • The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait (S. 13, Ep. 23)

    The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait (S. 13, Ep. 23)
    Apr 11 2024
    On this week's episode of the podcast, Courtney Freer of Emory University joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait: Parliament, Rentierism, and Society. This book provides an unprecedented holistic treatment of grassroots contemporary Kuwaiti politics in English in over two decades, incorporating the country's political dynamics into broader debates about the limits of authoritarianism and the practice of democracy in the Arab world, particularly in oil-wealthy states. Freer includes extensive fieldwork and the use of Arabic and English primary sources to assess and examine the institutional setting that Kuwait presents and traces the dominant ideological strands in the country, considering the comparative mobilizational potential of ascriptive identities like tribe and sect. Music for this season’s podcast was created by Malika Zarra. You can find more of her work on Instagram and Linktree.
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    52 mins
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