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Middle East Coverage
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Syrian Refugees and IDPs
A conversation about the the current state of Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons. Tima Kurdi shares her family's personal experience and Omar Dahi presents an examination of the situation.
Research
Dignity and Humiliation: Identity Formation among Syrian Refugees
An examination of “humiliation” and “dignity” as a dynamic that shapes Syrian refugees’ identities via interaction with pro-regime or pro-opposition Syrians or pro-refugees or anti-refugees in hosting countries.
Research
Reconciling fighters, settling civilians: the making of post-conflict citizens
The emergent illiberal peace in Syria extends the conditions of war and violence into the post-conflict period, creating new citizenship regimes that bifurcate Syrian society into the reconciled and settled and the unsettled and cast out.
Research
Weapons of mass participation: Social media, violence entrepreneurs, and the politics of crowdfunding for war
Since 2012, North American and European civilians have regularly engaged in combat operations against the Islamic State in the globalized and decentralized battlefields of Iraq and Syria. This article focuses on two aspects of this phenomenon.
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The Women's Movement and the Challenge of Political Islam in Turkey
Please Join Security in Context and the OU Center for Peace and Development at the University of Oklahoma for "The Women's Movement and the Challenge of Political Islam in Turkey," a talk with Yeşim Arat, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University in Istanbul.
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Day-Afters in Palestine: 1937-2024
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