PUBLISHED WORK

• "Personalization and Domestic Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia," Democratization, forthcoming
   

• “If Only the Governor Knew”: Subnational Contestation," APSA MENA Newsletter 5(1), Spring 2022

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• (with Christopher Carothers and Matthew Reichart). "When Can Dictators Go It Alone? Personalization and Oversight in Authoritarian Regimes." Politics & Society 51(1), 2023. (Accepted Manuscript)

  • Replication materials

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• (with Adel Hamaizia). "Foreign Scholarship Programs in Algeria and Saudi Arabia," in The Political Economy of Education in the Arab World, eds. Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, (Lynne Reiner: 2021). Summary article for the Wilson Center available here. 
   

• "Making Moves: Reading Saudi Social Change through Commercial Tabletop Games." Journal of Arabian Humanities 14, 2020.

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• (with Courtney Freer) "Defining the ‘Tribal Advantage’ in Kuwaiti Politics." Middle East Law & Governance, Online pre-print. (Submitted draft version and data appendix)

  • Summary with application to 2020 Kuwaiti elections: "The ‘tribal advantage’ in Kuwaiti politics and the future of the opposition," Order from Chaos (blog), Brookings Institution, April 19, 2021 
     

• (With Daniel Moshashai and James D. Savage) "Saudi Arabia plans for its economic future: Vision 2030, the National Transformation Plan and Saudi fiscal reform." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 47, no. 3 (2020): 381-401.​

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• (with Charlotte Lysa) "Women’s Sports Programs Are Challenging Saudi Arabia’s Gender Divide." Gulf Affairs, (2018): 9-12.

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• (with Charlotte Lysa) "Onwards and Upwards with Women in the Gulf." MERIP, (2018).

• (with Alexei Abrahams). "Social Media Manipulation in the MENA: Inauthenticity, Inequality, and Insecurity." POMEPS Studies 43, "Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East" (2021)
   

• (with Alexei Abrahams). "Electronic Armies or Cyber Knights? The Sources of Pro-Authoritarian Discourse on Middle East Twitter." International Journal of Communication 15, 2021.

  • Written up for the Washington Post as "Saudi Twitter blew up with support for the crown prince. How much of it is genuine?," March 9, 2021.​

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• (with Alexei Abrahams). "Framing a murder: Twitter influencers and the Jamal Khashoggi incident." Mediterranean Politics (2020): online preprint

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• (with Alexei Abrahams). "A storm of tweets: Social media manipulation during the gulf crisis." Review of Middle East Studies 53, no. 2 (2019). 

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• (with Charlotte Lysa) "The Banality of Protest? Twitter Campaigns in Qatar." Gulf Affairs, (2016): 17-21.