Pensum/l?ringskrav

B?ker (kj?pes p? Akademika):

• Knut Vik?r: Ei verd bygd p? islam (2004)
• Shereen El Feki: Sex and the Citadel (2014)
• Dag Tuastad: Palestinske utfordringer (2014)

Artikler:

Politisk system og politisk kultur

• Al-Mohammad, Hayder. "¡®You have car insurance, we have tribes¡¯: Negotiating everyday life in Basra and the re-emergence of tribalism." Anthropology of the Middle East 6.1 (2011): 18-34. http://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/ame/6/1/ame060103.xml
• Barany, Zoltan. "The role of the military." Journal of Democracy 22.4 (2011): 24-35. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/454055/summary
• Bellin, Eva. "Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring." Comparative Politics 44.2 (2012): 127-149. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/cp/2012/00000044/00000002/art00002
• Hinnebusch , R 2016 , ' The sectarianization of the Middle East : transnational identity wars and competitive interference ' Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) , vol Studies 21 , pp. 71-75 https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/9840
• Lust, Ellen. "Competitive clientelism in the Middle East." Journal of Democracy 20.3 (2009): 122-135. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/270333/summary
• Sadowski, Yahya. "The new orientalism and the democracy debate." Middle East Report (1993). http://www.jstor.org/stable/3012572?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• Yom, Sean L., and F. Gregory Gause III. "Resilient royals: How Arab monarchies hang on." Journal of Democracy 23.4 (2012): 74-88. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/487784/summary

Ungdom og uformell politikk, kj?nn og seksualitet

• Bayat, Asef (2011): Reclaiming Youthfulness. I Arab Youth. Social Mobilisation in Times of Risk. London: Saiqi: 47-67
• Singerman, Diane. "Youth, gender, and dignity in the Egyptian uprising." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 9.3 (2013): 1-27.
• Tuastad, Dag (2013): ¡°From football riot to revolution. The political role of football in the Arab World¡±. Soccer & Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 376 ¨C 388. URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2012.753541#.VTZhTCHtlBc. (12 s.)

Jihadisme

• Hegghammer. Thomas. , "Jihadi Salafis or Revolutionaries: On Religion and Politics in the Study of Islamist Militancy", in R Meijer (ed), Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement, (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 244-266, http://hegghammer.com/_files/Hegghammer_-_jihadi_salafis_or_revolutionaries.pdf
• Lia, Brynjar. "Fanatismens seier? Jihadismens frammarsj i den arabiske verden". Babylon: Nordisk tidsskrift for midt?stenstudier 15, no.2 (2016): 60-85. 
• Lia, Brynjar.. "Understanding jihadi proto-states." Perspectives on Terrorism 9.4 (2015). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281274357_Understanding_Jihadi_Proto-States 9 s

Revolusjon 2.0

• Hofheinz, Albrecht (2011): ¡°Nextopia? Beyond Revolution 2.0¡±. International Journal of Communication 5. URL: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1186 <http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1186>  (12 S.)
• Lynch, Marc (2013): ¡°Twitter Devolutions¡±. Foreign Policy, February 7th, 2013. URL: http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/07/twitter-devolutions/ <http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/07/twitter-devolutions/>  (3 s.)
• Transfeld, Mareike & Isabelle Werenfels (eds.) (2016): #HashtagSolidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the MENA Region. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. URL: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/hashtagsolidarities-twitter-debates-and-networks-in-the-mena-region/ <https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/hashtagsolidarities-twitter-debates-and-networks-in-the-mena-region/>  (s. 5-7, 9-28, 56-62: 30 s.)
• Tufekci, Zeynep (2014): ¡°Social Movements and Governments in the Digital Age: Evaluating A Complex Landscape.¡± Journal of International Affairs 68, no. 1:  1¨C18. URL: http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jia/files/2014/12/xvii-18_Tufekci_Article.pdf <http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jia/files/2014/12/xvii-18_Tufekci_Article.pdf>  (18 s.)

Tyrkiske dilemmaer

• Kasaba, Re?at. ¡°From Moveable Empire to Immovable State: Ottoman Policies Towards Nomads and Refugees in the Modern Era.¡± New Perspectives on Turkey 45
• Parslow, Joakim. 2016.  ¡°Erdogan¡¯s Turkey: An Unpredictable Partner for a Desperate EU?¡± Security Policy Library, 3-2016, Den Norske Atlanterhavskomite. http://www.atlanterhavskomiteen.no/files/dnak/Documents/Publikasjoner/2016/Sikkerhetspolitisk%20Bibliotek/SPL%203-2016.pdf

Kurderne

• van Bruinessen, Martin. ¡°The Kurds between Iran and Iraq.¡± MERIP Middle East Report, no. 141 (July 1, 1986): 14¨C27. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3011925?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Iran

• Fatemeh Sadeghi, "Foot Soldiers of the Islamic Republic's 'Culture of Modesty,'" Middle East Report, No. 250, The Islamic Revolution at 30 (Spring, 2009), pp. 50-55.             
• Shaul Bakhash, "Iran: Slouching Towards the 21st Century," in The Middle East Enters the Twenty-First Century, University Press of Florida, 2002.               
• Homa Hoodfar and Samad Assadpour, "The Politics of Population Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 19-34.