In the third volume of the Singapore Middle East Papers, MEI Visiting Research Professor Peter Sluglett’s chapter on the Shiʿa of late nineteenth and twentieth-century Iraq provides the context needed to understand “the virtual monopolization of the political stage by Shi‘i movements after 2003.” Joseph Sassoon of Georgetown University and Chérine Chams el Dine of Cairo [...]

In the second volume of the Singapore Middle East Papers, MEI Visiting Research Professor Robert R. Bianchi examines Egypt’s parliamentary elections of 2011 and 2012 that saw victories for the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the rise of the Islamist Nur Party. Through his painstaking statistical analysis, in which he looked at voting patterns as [...]

In the first volume of the Singapore Middle East Papers, three authors take on the topic of the relationship between Asia and the Gulf. Tim Niblock of the University of Exeter discusses recent and shifting economic relations between the Gulf and Southeast Asia, and Jacqueline Armijo and Lina Kassen of Qatar University relatedly address the [...]