Tarek Masoud
Courses
DPI 440: Middle Eastern Politics and Policy
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...
Getting and Keeping Democracy
DPI-407 This is a course about how democracy comes into being and how it breaks down, and about what citizens, activists, and policymakers around the world can do to make the former more likely and the latter less so. Around the world, there is an...
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...
Publication
2015
Tarek Masoud. 2015. “Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87
Tarek Masoud. 2015. “Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87
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...
2014
Tarek Masoud. 2014. Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. Cambridge University Press
Tarek Masoud. 2014. Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. Cambridge University Press
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...
2008
2008. Order, Conflict, and Violence. Cambridge University Press
2008. Order, Conflict, and Violence. Cambridge University Press