Janine A. Clark is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Guelph. She has conducted extensive field research on Islamism, decentralization, and civil society activism in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco (Columbia UP) and Islam, Charity and Activism (Indiana UP) and co-editor of Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World (Macmillan/St. Martin's).Francesco Cavatorta is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Laval University. He has conducted extensive field research on Islamism, party politics in the Arab world and civil society activism in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of The international dimension of the failed Algerian transition: Democracy betrayed? (Manchester University Press), co-author Politics and Governance in the Middle East (Palgrave), and co-editor of Salafism after the Arab Awakening: Contending with people's power (Hurst).

• AcknowledgementsList of contributors 1. Introduction: The Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Conducting Research in the Middle East and North AfricaJanine A. Clark and Francesco Cavatorta Part 1: Context2. Encountering the Mukhabarat StateJillian Schwedler and Janine A. Clark3. What Is So Special about Field Research in Iran? Doing Fieldwork in Religiously Charged Authoritarian SettingsPaola Rivetti and Shirin Saeidi4. Authoritarianism, Gender, and Sociopolitics in Saudi ArabiaGwenn Okruhlik5. Researching in and on the Palestinian Occupied TerritoriesBenoit Challand6. Seeing Beyond the Spectacle: Research on and Adjacent to ViolenceSarah E. Parkinson7. Doing Research during Times of Revolution and Counter-revolutionAtef Said8. Researching the Countryside: Farmers, Farming, and Social Transformation in a Time of Economic LiberalizationRay Bush Part 2: Methods9. Interviewing: Lessons LearnedJanine A. Clark10. Interviewing Salafis: Negotiating Access and EthicsMassimo Ramaioli11. Interviewing Salafis: Overcoming Mistrust in Middle Eastern and European ContextsZoltan Pall and Mohamed Ali Adraoui 12. Interviewing and GenderEmanuela Dalmasso13. Process tracing and the Political Economy of Development in the Middle EastDavid Waldner14. Ethnography Is an Option: Learning to Learn in YemenStacey Philbrick Yadav15. Coding in Qualitative ResearchMohammed Yaghi16. Quantitative Research in MENA Political ScienceMiquel Pellicer and Eva Wegner17. Of Promise and Pitfalls: Population-Based Experimental Research in the Middle EastSteven Brooke18. Online Media as Research Topic and Research Tool: Fact, Fiction and FacebookElizabeth Monier19. Researching TwitterGeoffrey Martin Part 3: Ethics20. Blurred Lines of Inclusion and Exclusion: Research Ethics for SympathizersIrene Weipert-Fenner21. Playing with Positionality? Reflections on"Outsider" / "Insider" Status in the Context of Fieldwork in Lebanon's Deeply Divided PolityPaul Kingston22. Intersectionality Theory and Working with "Both Sides"Lihi Ben Shitrit23. The (Ambiguous) Fieldwork Experiences of a German Moroccan in JordanMalika Bouziane NotesBibliographyIndex

Janine A. Clark is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Guelph. She has conducted extensive field research on Islamism, decentralization, and civil society activism in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco (Columbia UP) and Islam, Charity and Activism (Indiana UP) and co-editor of Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World (Macmillan/St. Martin's).Francesco Cavatorta is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Laval University. He has conducted extensive field research on Islamism, party politics in the Arab world and civil society activism in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of The international dimension of the failed Algerian transition: Democracy betrayed? (Manchester University Press), co-author Politics and Governance in the Middle East (Palgrave), and co-editor of Salafism after the Arab Awakening: Contending with people's power (Hurst).

• AcknowledgementsList of contributors 1. Introduction: The Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Conducting Research in the Middle East and North AfricaJanine A. Clark and Francesco Cavatorta Part 1: Context2. Encountering the Mukhabarat StateJillian Schwedler and Janine A. Clark3. What Is So Special about Field Research in Iran? Doing Fieldwork in Religiously Charged Authoritarian SettingsPaola Rivetti and Shirin Saeidi4. Authoritarianism, Gender, and Sociopolitics in Saudi ArabiaGwenn Okruhlik5. Researching in and on the Palestinian Occupied TerritoriesBenoit Challand6. Seeing Beyond the Spectacle: Research on and Adjacent to ViolenceSarah E. Parkinson7. Doing Research during Times of Revolution and Counter-revolutionAtef Said8. Researching the Countryside: Farmers, Farming, and Social Transformation in a Time of Economic LiberalizationRay Bush Part 2: Methods9. Interviewing: Lessons LearnedJanine A. Clark10. Interviewing Salafis: Negotiating Access and EthicsMassimo Ramaioli11. Interviewing Salafis: Overcoming Mistrust in Middle Eastern and European ContextsZoltan Pall and Mohamed Ali Adraoui 12. Interviewing and GenderEmanuela Dalmasso13. Process tracing and the Political Economy of Development in the Middle EastDavid Waldner14. Ethnography Is an Option: Learning to Learn in YemenStacey Philbrick Yadav15. Coding in Qualitative ResearchMohammed Yaghi16. Quantitative Research in MENA Political ScienceMiquel Pellicer and Eva Wegner17. Of Promise and Pitfalls: Population-Based Experimental Research in the Middle EastSteven Brooke18. Online Media as Research Topic and Research Tool: Fact, Fiction and FacebookElizabeth Monier19. Researching TwitterGeoffrey Martin Part 3: Ethics20. Blurred Lines of Inclusion and Exclusion: Research Ethics for SympathizersIrene Weipert-Fenner21. Playing with Positionality? Reflections on"Outsider" / "Insider" Status in the Context of Fieldwork in Lebanon's Deeply Divided PolityPaul Kingston22. Intersectionality Theory and Working with "Both Sides"Lihi Ben Shitrit23. The (Ambiguous) Fieldwork Experiences of a German Moroccan in JordanMalika Bouziane NotesBibliographyIndex