Menarch Research


Funded research

The “emancipator elasticity” of Islam: the relation between divine authority, cultural authenticity, and human emancipation in the political discourse of Egyptian Muslim intellectuals
The Impact of decentralization and ‘good governance’ on democratic transition and urban transformation in the Middle East. Case-study: A comparative political analysis between Amman (Jordan) and Aqaba (Jordan)
Infrastructural violence and resistance in the Palestinian West Bank: The politics of spatial practice
Techno-politics and infrastructural violence. Production of the Jordan Valley (Palestinian West Bank and East Bank) as a governable space.
Democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa. A comparative study of Morocco and Egypt
Actually Existing Neoliberalism and the Reconfiguration of Government and Political Society in the Arab World: Jordan and Iraq
The influence of transnational political mobilisation on homeland conflicts.

Non-funded research

From denial to insurgency: the PKK and the reconstruction of the Kurdish identity
Religion and Politics in Islamic Northern Nigeria: A Case Study of Kaduna State
The European Union and Islamists movements: the example of the Barcelona process/European Neighbourhood Programme
Criminalising the Other. The discursice imagination of ‘the Other’ from a “field-perspective”.
Modalities of Welfare Governance in the Context of Neoliberal State Restructuring: Remaking Public Service Management in Istanbul