Ellen Lust - The Middle East

Ellen Lustis a professor in the department of political science at the University of Gothenburg and Founding Director of the Programs on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg and Yale University. Her publications include Structuring Conflict in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and numerous volumes, including most recently Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) coedited with Lina Khatib. She has also published articles in such journals as Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Politics and Society. She was an associate founding editor of the newly interdisciplinary journal, Middle East Law and Governance, and now chairs its board of directors. Lust has studied, conducted research, and led student and alumni groups in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, and Syria.

LAHOUARI ADDI,author of the chapter on Algeria, is a sociologist who teaches political sociology at the Institute of Political Science, University of Lyon, France. He is a member of the Research Centre Triangle, UMR CNRS 5206. Addi has published many books and papers on Algeria, among them Les Mutations de la Socit Algrienne (Editions La Dcouverte, 1999) and Deux anthrologues au Maghreb: Sociologie et Anthropologie chez Pierre Bourdieu (Web log, 2002). His most recent books are Ernest Gellner et Clifford Geertz (Les Editions des Archives Contemporaines, Paris, 2013), and Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam (Georgetown University Press, July 2016).HESHAM AL-AWADI,author of the chapter on Kuwait, is professor of history and international relations at the American University of Kuwait. His recent publications include The Muslim Brothers In Pursuit of Legitimacy: Power and Political Islam in Egypt Under Mubarak (I. B. Tauris, 2014).LIHI BEN SHITRIT,author of the chapter on Israel and coauthor of the chapter Religion, Society and Politics in the Middle East, is an assistant professor at the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, Athens. Her research focuses on religion, politics, and gender in the Middle East. She is the author of Righteous Transgressions: Womens Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right (Princeton University Press, 2015).MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI,author of the chapter on Iran, is professor and chair of the department of political science at Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where he is also the Provost Fellow for Internationalization. He is the author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse University Press, 1996), and editor of Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft.LAURIE A. BRAND,author of the chapter on Jordan, is the Robert Grandford Wright Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California, where she directs the Middle East Studies Program. She is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association, a four-time Fulbright scholar to the Middle East and North Africa, and a Carnegie Corporation scholar from 2008 to 2010. She is the author of Palestinians in the Arab World (Columbia University Press, 1988), Jordans Inter-Arab Relations (Columbia University Press, 1994), Women the State and Political Liberalization (Columbia University Press, 1998), Citizens Abroad: States and Emigration in the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Official Stories: Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria (Stanford University Press, 2014).MELANI CAMMETT,coauthor of the chapter on the political economy of the Middle East, is a professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of four books: A Political Economy of the Middle East (with Ishac Diwan, Alan Richards, and John Waterbury, Westview Press, 2015); Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon (Cornell University Press, 2014), which won the 2015 APSA Giovanni Sartori Book Award and the Honorable Mention for the 2015 APSA Gregory Luebbert Book Award; The Politics of Nonstate Welfare (coedited with Lauren Morris MacLean, Cornell University Press, 2014); and Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2010). She has received a variety of fellowships and awards and has published articles in scholarly and policy journals. Her current research focuses on governance, welfare, and identity politics in the Middle East and North Africa.BENOT CHALLAND,coauthor of the chapter on Palestine, is associate professor in sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York. He works on the politics of foreign aid in Arab countries and on comparative analyses of the Arab revolts, with a focus on Tunisia. Recent publications include