The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval

James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (2018) and The Modern Middle East: A History, now in its fifth edition (2020), among other books.

1. Is There a New Middle East? What Has Changed, and What Hasn't?

 —Joel Beinin

2. What Future for the Private Sector in the New Middle East?

 —Ishac Diwan

3. Education and Human Security: Centering the Politics of Human Dignity

 —Laurie A. Brand

4. Myths of Middle-Class Political Behavior in the Islamic Republic

 —Kevan Harris

5. Poets of the Revolutions: Authoritarians, Uprisings, and Rappers in North Africa, 1990s–Present

 —Aomar Boum

6. Islamism at a Crossroads? The Diffusion of Political Islam in the Arab World

 —Peter Mandaville

7. Islamists before and after 2011: Assuming, Overlooking, or Overthrowing the Administrative State?

 —Nathan J. Brown

8. Homeland (Dis-)Engagement Processes among the New Syrian Diaspora

 —Lindsay A. Gifford

9. Saudi Arabia: How Much Change?

 —F. Gregory Gause III

10. Erdoğan, Turkish Foreign Policy, and the Middle East

 —Henri J. Barkey

11. The Syrian Civil War and the New Middle East

 —James L. Gelvin

12. State Building, Sectarianization, and Neo-Patrimonialism in Iraq

 —Harith Hasan

13. The Post-Uprising Transformation of International Relations in the Middle East and North Africa

 —Fred H. Lawson

14. Proxy War and the New Structure of Middle East Regional Politics

 —Marc Lynch

16. Afterword: The Fourth Dream

 —Moncef Marzouki