Discussing with Michael Walzer: What Happened to National Liberation? A roundtable discussion on topics raised in Michael Walzer’s latest book, The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions. Registration for this event is now full.  If you would like to be added to the waiting list, you may add your name here or...

Lecture by Toby Matthiesen to mark the publication of his latest book The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2015) in which he traces the politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century until the present day. Using little-known Arabic sources, extensive fieldwork in...

What is the role of religious actors in the democratization processes of Muslim-majority countries? The only five countries categorized as democratic and free/partly free by Freedom House, the BTI and Polity IV as part of the Third and Fourth Waves of Democratization are Albania, Indonesia, Mali, Senegal and Turkey. The...