New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

Özgün E. Topak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. His degrees are from Istanbul University (BA), the Middle East Technical University (MA) of Turkey, and Queen’s University (PhD) of Canada. Dr. Topak is an interdisciplinary social scientist interested in topics of surveillance, authoritarianism, migration and human rights. He published extensively in these areas. His recent work on authoritarianism and surveillance appears in Security Dialogue and Surveillance & Society. He was awarded the 2019 Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher Prize. Merouan Mekouar is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. Most of his writing has focused on social movements, authoritarianism and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as well as the diffusion of social norms. His first book titled Protest and Mass Mobilization: Authoritarian Collapse and Political Change in North Africa was published with RoutIedge in 2016. He received numerous awards and grants including the Abner Kingman Fellowship, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Grant, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connection Grant, SSHRC Small Fund, York University Faculty Association Teaching Grant and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Seed Grant among others. Francesco Cavatorta is professor of political science and director of the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Afrique et le Moyen Orient (CIRAM) at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. His research focuses on the dynamics of authoritarianism and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. His current research projects deal with party politics and the role of political parties in the region. He has published several journal articles and books.

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• ForewordIntroduction - New Authoritarian Practices in the MENA Region: Key Developments and Trends - Özgün E. Topak, Merouan Mekouar, and Francesco Cavatorta Maintaining Order in Algeria: Upgrading Repressive Practices Under a Hybrid Regime – Islam Amine Derradji and Merouan MekouarThe authoritarian topography of the Bahraini state: political geographies of power and protest – Ala’a ShebabiAuthoritarian Repression Under Sisi: New Tactics or New Tools? – Kira JumetDeep Society and New Authoritarian Social Control in Iran after the Green Movement – Saeid GolkarSilencing peaceful voices: practices of control and repression in post-2003 Iraq – Irene CostantiniIsrael/Palestine: Authoritarian Practices in the context of a Dual State Crisis – Hilla DayanJordan: A Perpetually Liberalizing Autocracy – Curtis RyanLibya: Authoritarianism in a fractured state – Ronald Bruce St John"The Freedom of No Speech": Journalists and the Multiple Layers of Authoritarian Practices in Morocco – Driss MaghraouiNew Authoritarian Practices in Qatar: Censorship by the State and the Self - Alainna LiloiaDigital repression for authoritarian evolution in Saudi Arabia – Robert UniackeThe evolution of the Sudanese authoritarian state: The December uprising and the unraveling of a ‘persistent’ autocracy – Yousif HassanAuthoritarian nostalgia and practices in newly democratising contexts: the localised example of Tunisia – Giulia CiminiAn Assemblage of New Authoritarian Practices in Turkey - Özgün E. TopakThe United Arab Emirates: Evolving Authoritarian Tools – Christopher DavidsonAuthoritarian Practice and Fragmented Sovereignty in Post-Uprising Yemen – Vincent Durac