MEC Paper Series
Women, Law and Climate Resilience: Closing the Gap in Iraq’s Legal Framework
Alannah Travers with Sama Yas, Ahang Habib Hawrami and Yahya Ihsan Jabery, December 2025
Al-Hawizeh Women Struggling Amid Marsh Eradication: A Case Study of Al-Bu Khassaf Women in Maysan, Southern Iraq
Safaa Khalaf, Farah Salim, Abdul Salam Khanjar and Afrah Almatwari, December 2025
Visual Resilience: How Iraqi Women Photographers Reframe Climate Resilience Through Counter-Archiving
Khamael Al Safi, Zainab Mahdi and Noor Omer, December 2025
Adapting to Change: Climate Displacement, Gendered (Women) Challenges, and Pathways to Empowerment in Iraq
Raed Aldulaimi, Dahab Aglan, Hasan Azeez and Firas Salih, December 2025
Austerity and Resistance: The Public Salary Crisis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Winthrop Rodgers, December 2025
Ruptured Atlas: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Spatial Storytelling for Survivors of Genocide (The Case for Yazidis in Iraq)
Sana Murrani, Kimbal Bumstead, Zoé Paris, Ghazi Murad Ismael, Jameela Barakat Rasho and Omeed Khider Joqey, July 2025
The Shifting Landscape of Iraq’s Judiciary: Increased Judicial Activism, Centralisation and Politicisation after 2017
Iraq Watch Group, February 2025
The Struggles of Labour Mobilisation in Lebanon and Iraq
Anne Kirstine Rønn, February 2025
Big Bad Wolf, or Is It? Iran’s Economic Footprint in Iraq in Context
Ahmed Tabaqchali, January 2025
Insecure Leaders: How Elite Infighting May Facilitate the End of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
Zmkan Ali Saleem, December 2024
Understanding Preferences for Low Carbon Diets and Policies to Address Climate Change in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Arab World
Davide Contu, Ganga Shreedhar, Susana Mourato, Aseel Takshe, Valentina Carfora & Elif Çoker, November 2024
Global Identity in an Uncertain World: A Longitudinal Study of the Development of Cosmopolitan Social Attitudes at an Elite International University Setting in the Middle East
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Iván Cano, PJ Henry & Tatiana Karabchuk, October 2024
Breaking Barriers: A Leadership Framework for Women’s Development in Sudan
Souad Mohamed, Aida Abbashar and Hala Abushama, October 2024
Protesting Sectarianism: Lebanese Regime Resilience and Thawrat Tishreen
Jinan S. Al-Habbal, June 2024
The UN’s Humanitarian Transition from Emergency Assistance to Development Funding in Iraq: The Politics of Delivering Aid in a Country of Protracted Post-Conflict Displacement
Alannah Travers, May 2024
The Problem of Top-Down Techno-Centrism in Pan-Arab News Media
Omar Al-Ghazzi & Abeer Al-Najjar, May 2024
A Fistful of Dinars: Demystifying Iraq’s Dollar Auction
Ahmed Tabaqchali, April 2024
Surviving Together: Infrastructures of Care in Palestine During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Anmar Rafeedie, Haneen Naamneh, Suzi Hall & Abaher El-Sakka, March 2024
An Analysis of Changing Israeli and Palestinian Attitudes Towards Peace
Elisa Cavatorta & Ben Groom, February 2024
The Competition for Control in Sinjar: How External Actors and Local Interests Inhibit the Sinjar Agreement
Zmkan Ali Saleem, January 2024
Behavioural Explanations for Gender Gaps in Obesity and Overweight in Egypt
Joan Costa-Font and Anton Grahed, December 2023
Roads (Dis)connecting Cities and Neighbourhoods: A Socio-Spatial Study of Abu Dhabi
Alexandra Gomes, Apostolos Kyriazis, Peter Schwinger, Clémence Montagne and Sepehr Zhand, December 2023
Neoliberal Visions? Exploring Gendered Media and Popular Culture in the Palestinian West Bank
Polly Withers, Rema Hammami, Rania Jawad and Amirah Silmi, December 2023
Mapping the Unseen: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge through Participatory Mapping to Address Displacement and Housing Challenges in Post-Invasion Iraq
Sana Murrani, December 2023
Corruption is the Lifeblood of Politics in Iraq
Sajad Jiyad, November 2023
The Trouble with Halbousi: The Rise of, and Resistance to, Iraq's Sunni Strongman
Simona Foltyn, October 2023
Higher Education in Iraq After 2003: Ongoing Challenges
Ilham Makki, October 2023
Towards Hydro-Transparency on the Euphrates-Tigris Basin: Mapping Surface Water Changes in Iraq, 1984–2015
Michael Mason, Zeynep Akıncı, Arda Bilgen, Noori Nasir and Azhar Al-Rubaie, October 2023
Lebanon Unsettled: The Spatialities of the October 2019 Uprising
Deen Sharp, October 2023
A New Diaspora of Saudi Exiles: Challenging Repression from Abroad
Madawi Al-Rasheed, September 2023
The Yazidi Genocide: A Demographic Documentation of ISIL’s Attack on Tel Qasab and Tel Banat
Valeria Cetorelli and Sareta Ashraph, September 2023
Art and Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Feminist Fault Lines, Body Politics and the Struggle for Space
Isabel Käser & Houzan Mahmoud, September 2023
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Transnational Dynamics in the MENA Region: Exploring Policy Responses
Spyros A. Sofos, June 2023
Protectors of the State? The Popular Mobilisation Forces During the 2022 Post-election Crisis
Simona Foltyn, April 2023
Changing the System from Within? The Role of Opposition Parties in Consolidating Democracy in Iraq Post-2019
Taif Alkhudary, March 2023
Does Export Composition Matter for Economic Growth in the UAE?
Athanasia Stylianou Kalaitzi, Samer Kherfi, Sahel Alrousan & Marina-Selini Katsaiti, November 2022
The Kurdish Protest Movement and the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Securitisation of Kurdish Nationalism
Allan Hassaniyan & Gareth Stansfield, April 2022
Peacebuilding in Turbulent Times: Turkey in MENA and Africa
Spyros A. Sofos, March 2022
Qatar and the UAE in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
Courtney Freer, March 2022
MENA Regional Organisations in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding: The League of Arab States, Gulf Cooperation Council and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Courtney Freer, March 2022
The Occupied Jawlan: An Online Open Curriculum
Michael Mason, Muna Dajani, Munir Fakher Eldin & Omar Tesdell, December 2021
In-Between Identities and Cultures: Ms. Marvel and the Representation of Young Muslim Women
Jennifer Jackson-Preece & Manmit Bhambra, May 2021
Redefining Deprivation in a Conflict Area: Learning from the Palestinian Experience Using Mixed Methods
Tiziana Leone, Weeam Hammoudeh, Susan Mitwali, David Lewis, Rawan Kafri, Tracy Lin, Rita Giacaman & Ernestina Coast, March 2021
Revolution in Parallel Times: An Egyptian Village's Lived Revolution
Heba M. Khalil, March 2021
Praetorian Spearhead: The Role of the Military in the Evolution of Egypt’s State Capitalism 3.0
Yezid Sayigh, January 2021
North Africa's Export Economies and Structural Fragility: The Limits of Development through European Value Chains
Shamel Azmeh & Abeer Elshennawy, December 2020
Strikes, Riots and Laughter: Al-Himamiyya Village's Experience of Egypt's 1918 Peasant Insurrection
Alia Mossallam, September 2020
Whose Story? Narratives of Nationalism in Heritage Production of the Arabian Peninsula
Courtney Freer & Yasmine Kherfi, August 2020
The Prince and the Minotaur: Egypt in the Labyrinth of Counter-Revolution
Brecht De Smet, June 2020
Public Media Accountability: Media Journalism, Engaged Publics and Critical Media Literacy in the MENA
Abeer Al-Najjar, June 2020
Being Chinese Muslims in Dubai: Religion and Nationalism in a Transnational Space
Yuting Wang, May 2020
Preventing Statelessness among Migrants and Refugees: Birth Registration and Consular Assistance in Egypt and Morocco
Bronwen Manby, June 2019
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E-Shekels Across Borders: A Distributed Ledger System to Settle Payments Between Israel and the West Bank
Priscilla Toffano & Kathy Yuan, April 2019
The Calculus of Dissidence: How the Front des Forces Socialistes Became What It Is
Hugh Roberts, October 2018
The Iraqi Protest Movement: From Identity Politics to Issue Politics
Faleh Jabar, June 2018
Dialectics of Struggle: Challenges to the Kurdish Women's Movement
Nadje Al-Ali & Latif Tas, March 2018
The EU's Engagement with 'Moderate' Political Islam: The Case of Ennahda
Silvia Colombo & Benedetta Voltolini, July 2017
Iran's Eleventh Presidential Election Revisited: The Politics of Managing Change
Ali Ansari, November 2016
Theorising Revolution, Apprehending Civil War: Leftist Political Practice and Analysis in Lebanon (1969–79)
Fadi Bardawil, October 2016
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: State Fragility and Social Resilience
Filippo Dionigi, February 2016
Political Economy and Social Movement Theory Perspectives on the Tunisian and Egyptian Popular Uprisings in 2011
Joel Beinin, January 2016
Battlefields of the Republic: The Struggle for Public Space in Tunisia
Charles Tripp, December 2015
Is it Always Good to be King? Saudi Regime Resilience after the 2011 Arab Popular Uprisings
Madawi Al-Rasheed, December 2015
The Revival of Nationalism and Secularism in Modern Iran
Pejman Abdolmohammadi, November 2015
Will the Real Palestinian Peasantry Please Sit Down? Towards a New History of British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1936
Charles Anderson, November 2015
Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf
Courtney Freer, November 2015
Social Movements and the Question of Organisation: Egypt and Everywhere
Maha Abdelrahman, September 2015
Divine Politics Reconsidered: Saudi Islamists on Peaceful Revolution
Madawi Al-Rasheed, May 2015
The Uprising of the Marginalised: A Socio-Economic Perspective of the Syrian Uprising
Shamel Azmeh, November 2014
New Trends of Women's Activism after the Arab Uprisings: Redefining Women's Leadership
Aitemad Muhanna-Matar, November 2014
Syria-Iraq relations: State Construction and Deconstruction and the MENA States System
Raymond Hinnebusch, October 2014
The Emerging Interventionists of the GCC
Karen Young, December 2013
The Iraqi Constitution: Structural Flaws and Political Implications
Saad Jawad, November 2013