How Border Peripheries are Changing the Nature of Arab States

Maha Yahya is Director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut, Lebanon, where her work focuses broadly on political violence and identity politics, pluralism, development and social justice, the challenges of citizenship, and the political and socio-economic implications of the migration/refugee crisis.

1. Introduction, Maha Yahya.- 2. Smuggling and State Formation: A Match Made in Algeria, Dalia Ghanem.- 3.Cronies and Contraband: Why Integrating Tunisia's Informal Economic Elite Has Become Necessary, Hamza Meddeb.- 4. North Pacific: Why Lebanon's Akkar Region Weathered the Syrian Conflict, Maha Yahya and Mohanad Hage Ali.- 5. Transnationalization of a Borderland: Center, Periphery, and Identity in Western Iraq, Harith Hasan.- 6. Hadramawt's Emergence as a Center: A Confluence of Yemeni Circumstances and Hadrami Resourcefulness, Ahmed Nagi.- 7. How Syria's War Extended Border Policies to Much of the Country, Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur.- 8. The Center Gives: Southern Syria and the Rise of New Peripheral Powerbrokers, Armenak Tokmajyan.- 9. On the Edge: How Risks from Iraq Have Helped Form Kuwaiti Identity, Bader Al-Saif.