The past two decades have seen an increasing association between Lebanese Salafism and violence, with less attention being paid to Salafis who focus on peaceful proselytization.  Meer

Saudi Arabia, homeland of Osama bin Laden and many 9/11 hijackers, is widely considered to be the heartland of radical Islamism. For decades, the conservative and oil-rich kingdom contributed recruits, ideologues and money to jihadi groups worldwide.  Meer

Appearing against the backdrop of Jordan's remarkable levels of authoritarian stability and accounting for Jordan being one of the highest recipients of US and European.  Meer

Since its founding in 1945, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood has enjoyed decades of almost continuous parliamentary presence and state acceptance in Jordan, participating in elections, organising events and even establishing a hospital.  Meer

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Egypt, Morocco, and Washington DC and recently declassified government documents, this book focuses on the construction and practice of democracy aid in the Middle East, showing how democracy aid can reinforce, rather than challenge authoritarian regimes.  Meer

This innovative study explores the evolution and complexities of Tunisian diaspora activism in France during the years of Ben Ali's dictatorship in Tunisia (1987–2011).  Meer

Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, this book challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of state-making in post-revolutionary Iran.  Meer

This innovative study explores a novel dimension of elite politics in Arab Gulf monarchies where both oil and Islam are ubiquitous: how rulers exploit both oil revenues and Islamic norms to manage and control their populations, build community, and protect and enrich dynastic autocracies.  Meer

This innovative study explores a novel dimension of elite politics in Arab Gulf monarchies where both oil and Islam are ubiquitous: how rulers exploit both oil revenues and Islamic norms to manage and control their populations, build community, and protect and enrich dynastic autocracies.  Meer

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender power relations as expressed in Shi'i ritual practices.  Meer

Drawing extensively on Turkish-language materials, this study offers a thorough account of Turkey's Democrat Party. The first governing party to gain power through competitive elections and the first to be removed by a coup, the Democrat Party crafted a center-right political coalition that continues to define Turkey's politics today.  Meer

A rich ethnographic study, this book explores the gendered politics of settler colonialism through a comparative focus on masculinities across Israel and Palestine.  Meer

A parallel analysis of the collective transmission of the key foundational traumas in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian society, this book illustrates how the Holocaust and the Nakba have been narrated by the two peoples since the signing of the Oslo Accords and contribute to the intractable nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Meer