Political Science in the Middle East and North Africa

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

Sponsored by the Arab Political Science Network: How do scholars in the Arab World use Political Science? What are the main research agendas or topics that interest regional scholars? In this roundtable, we focus on the interests, goals, challenges and priorities of MENA scholars of political science. In a political climate fraught with uncertainty, repression, dwindling freedoms and access to public spaces, how do regional scholars of political science carry out their research and position it in public discussions? How does their research interact with the political science research outside the region – in Europe, North America and elsewhere? This roundtable will feature scholars from inside and outside the MENA region, commencing an inter-regional disciplinary discussion that bridges the interests and concerns of Arab political science scholars—irrespective of their home institutions or geographical base—and privileges the interests of political science scholars in the Arab World.

Sub Unit

• APSA Panels and All Meetings and Receptions

Chair

• Lisa Anderson

Presenters

• Rabab El-Mahdi American University of Cairo

• Saloua ZERHOUNI Mohammed V University in Rabat

• Hamad Albloshi Kuwait University

• Nathan J Brown George Washington University