Book project
The Logic of Concessions
My book project examines the logic of state response to mobilization, asking in particular how revolutions and regime transitions may transform the logic of elite response to mobilization. I address these questions using interview, documentary, and quantitative evidence collected during fifteen months of fieldwork in Tunisia and Morocco. Read more about my book here.
Articles & chapters
“From Victims to Dissidents: Legacies of Violence and Popular Mobilization in Iraq (2003-2008).” With Killian Clarke and Rima Majed. American Political Science Review. First view online.
“Citizens’ Understanding of the Social Contract: Evidence from Tunisia.” With Dina Bishara and Michelle Jurkovich. World Development. First view online.
“Theorizing revolution in democracies: Evidence from the 2019 uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq.” With Killian Clarke and Rima Majed. Published as a UNU-WIDER working paper in the project Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict.
“Unconventional Mobilization in the Middle East and Asia.” With Diana Fu. In David A. Snow et al eds., The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (2023).
“Who are unions for? Snapshots of union-activist relations in Redeyef, Tunisia, in the late Ben Ali era.” POMEPS Studies 45: Labor and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (2022). View online.
“Between Two Uprisings: The Study of Protest in the Middle East, 2010-2020.” With Nermin Allam, Killian Clarke, and Jillian Schwedler. In Marc Lynch Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom eds., The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings. Oxford University Press (2022).
"Policing the organizational threat in Morocco: Protest and public violence in liberal autocracies." American Journal of Political Science 65.3 (2021). View online.
“Islamist Mobilization During the Arab Uprisings.” In Melani Cammett and Pauline Jones eds., The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies (2021). View online.
“Patterns of Mobilization and Repression in Iraq’s Tishreen Uprising.” POMEPS Studies 42: MENA’s Frozen Conflicts (2020). View online.
"When Revolutionary Coalitions Break Down: Polarization, Protest, and the Tunisian Political Crisis of August 2013." Invited contribution to special issue of Middle East Law & Governance, “New Boundaries of State/Resistance Constellations in the Middle East” 11.2 (2019). View online.
"Regionalism in New Democracies: Historical Legacies and Voter-Party Linkages." With Elizabeth Nugent. Political Research Quarterly 73.4 (2019). View online.
"Ctrl-Alt-Revolt? Online and Online Networks during the 2011 Egyptian Uprising." With Elizabeth Nugent. Middle East Law and Governance 10.1 (2018). View online.
"Tunisia's Economic Transition? Popular Evaluations of Social Crisis and Reform." Analysis paper for the Arab Barometer (2016). Download PDF.
"Defining Political Choices: Tunisia's Second Democratic Elections from the Ground Up." With Elizabeth Nugent. The Brookings Center for Middle East Policy, Analysis Paper No. 38 (2015) View online.
"Bordering on Conventional: The Politics of Iraqi Resettlement to the US and Europe, 2003-2011." Refuge 28:1 (2012). View online.
"An Uncommon Burden: Aid, Resettlement, and Refugee Policy in Syria." In John Calabrese and Jean-Luc Marret eds., Transatlantic Cooperation on Protracted Displacement: Urgent Need and Unique Opportunity. Middle East Institute Press (2012).
Book reviews
Review of The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes. Mobilization 28:2 (2023). View online.
Roundtable book review of Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent. APSA Middle East Politics Section Newsletter 5:2 (2022). View online.
"Mobilizing Morocco: New Works on Society and State." Mediterranean Politics 25:4 (2019). View online.