💡This op-ed first appeared in The New Arab on 21 August 2026 The region is overdue for a new security arrangement that takes into account the lives and aspirations its people. Trump has threatened to “bomb the s**” out of Oman for the second time this year. A shocking
To my great delight and astonishment my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the AGAPS Biennial Book Award! I received the news during the AGAPS Business Meeting held at MESA. The announcement rendered me speechless, a state
I’m very pleased to announce the publication of my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, with Cambridge University Press. After some epic production delays largely due to the cyber-attack at CUP, it finally arrived to my home
It was an absolute pleasure to be invited to participate in the conference The genealogy of Post-Western IR Historiography: Asian Perspectives (23-24 January 2024) hosted at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan by my colleague Yih-Jye Hwang. I was particularly delighted to see a wide inclusion
My colleague with the International Studies Review (ISR), Hussein Banai, is our book review editor and hosts the ISR podcast. We had a wonderful chat among a few of the ISR editors about our top two notable reads of 2023. Huss was joined by myself and Nicolas Blarel. It was
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