Join us Thursday, December 11, 2 PM ET online for: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible:” A discussion of Sean Yom’s new book, “Jordan”

With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh and @sarahleah1.bsky.social

Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I wrote a piece for @jodemocracy.bsky.social on a little-noticed court decision last week to effectively permanently outlaw Jordan’s teacher’s union
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New publication: The product of a fantastic conference on Gramsci in the MENA at LSE (4 years ago!) and part of a forthcoming special issue w/ eds. John Chalcraft and @saramsalem! Spatio-temporal dimensions of hegemony and resistance in neoliberal Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Article from our latest issue (Issue 7, 2025): "Claiming a 'Right' to State Space: Building Social Movements Under Authoritarian Rule" by Matthew T. Lacouture

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Very pleased to share the Spring 2025 issue of the @apsamena.bsky.social newsletter, co-edited with @samershehata.bsky.social and @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social:

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Excited to see this piece now up with page numbers and everything journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I guess I'm actually proud to be so bad at social media that I did this whole thread to promote my article but forgot to post a link. Anyway, the article is open access, and you can find it here:

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To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class?

This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy

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“Yesterday, though he likely doesn’t realize it (or care), Donald Trump just put [the Jordan-Israel peace] treaty at serious risk by suggesting that Jordan accept the single most important thing the treaty was meant to prevent.”

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I wrote a short essay for @JoDemocracy on the remarkable fall of Bashar Al Assad
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“The war in Gaza doesn’t come up in conversation these days as often as it used to: What more is there to say? It’s now the air we breathe.” - Ursula Lindsey

An important read: A Horizon of Violence www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-hori...

Excited to be co-organizing the 2024 Comparative Labor Workshop with Bluesky-less Danny Daneri!

We aim to bring scholars working on labor issues across subfields and methods orientations into conversation

Please apply with an abstract by Dec. 8 for March 8-9, 2024: forms.gle/8LDewfTw4a1N...

New ep of the Middle East Political Science podcast has dropped! Listen to @oraszekely.bsky.social talk about her new book SYRIA DIVIDED and my conversation with the great Wendy Pearlman about her work with Syrian refugee oral histories. Listen here!

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The Project on Middle East Political Science is thrilled to announce POMEPS Studies 49: Urban Politics in the Middle East! Download the full PDF here!
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