# Tarek Masoud ## expand\_more ![David Roxburgh](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-10/Khaled%20El-Rouayheb.jpg?itok=TBgoMmuR) ## Professor David Roxburgh #### Interim Faculty Director Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History Department of History of Art and Architecture Courses Publications ## Courses [### IGA 655: Middle Eastern Politics and Policy ](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/151561) Explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine democratization. Explores the role of... [### DPI 440: Middle Eastern Politics and Policy ](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hks-170188/2019/spring/19426) Instructor: Tarek Masoud Explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine... [### Middle Eastern Politics and Policy ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/middle-eastern-politics-and-policy) DPI-440 This course explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine democratization... ## Publications Download 3 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=165220&&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=165220&&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=165220&&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=165220&&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=165220&&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=165220&&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=165220&&&format=ris) ### 2015 Tarek Masoud. 2015. “[Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135)”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87 Tarek Masoud. 2015. “[Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135)”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87 - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135) In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, democracy in the Arab world seems farther away today than at any point in the last 25 years, leaving one to conclude that the answer to the question posed in this special anniversary issue of the Journal—“Is Democracy... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135) ### 2014 Tarek Masoud. 2014. [Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt](/publications/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt). Cambridge University Press Tarek Masoud. 2014. [Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt](/publications/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt). Cambridge University Press - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt) Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt) ### 2008 2008. [Order, Conflict, and Violence](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#). Cambridge University Press 2008. [Order, Conflict, and Violence](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#). Cambridge University Press - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#) See also:- [ Tarek Masoud ](/featured-faculty/tarek-masoud)