In their upcoming book, After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, Shamiran Mako and Valentine Moghadam share their work on democracy and social transformation in North Africa after the Arab Spring. In an interview with Rachel, Mako and Moghadam talk about the six years of research leading up to the book and explain the four key frameworks of their analysis: state and regime type, civil society, gender relations and women’s mobilizations, and external influence.

There’s no news wrap this week, but you can still see what we’re reading, listening to, and learning this week in the show notes on our website, ufahamuafrica.com.

Books, Links, & Articles

• After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa by Shamiran Mako and Valentine M. Moghadam

• The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform by Jason Brownlee, Tarek Masoud, and Andrew Reynolds

• How To Hide An Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

• “Morocco ‘weaponized’ migration to punish Spain. That’s more common than you think.” by Kelly M. Greenhill

• “What would bring stability after the death of Chad’s president?” by Daniel Eizenga

• “Somaliland at 30: Still unrecognised, but alive and well” by Markus Virgil Hoehne

• “Polls Open in Somaliland’s Local and Parliamentary Elections” by Harun Maruf and Khadar Mohamed Akule

• “What Do We Know About Chinese Lending in Africa?” by Zainab Usman