Some thoughts as I let my latest book go … – Spyros’s Substack, March 29 2026

Israel isn’t just responding to threats – it’s reshaping the Middle East – The Conversation, April 5, 2026

How Israel’s attack on Qatar erodes peace — and American influence — in the Middle East – The Conversation, September 10, 2025

Can a pro‑federation win in Northern Cyprus revive the island’s stalled reunification?The Conversation, November 3, 2025

How Israel’s domestic crises and Netanyahu’s aim to project power are reshaping the Middle East – The Conversation, June 25, 2025

Israel’s attack on Syria: Protecting the Druze minority or a regional power play? – The Conversation, July 30, 2025

What’s behind Erdoğan’s calculated shift on Kurds and its potential consequences – The Conversation, March 5, 2025

Syria as a Battleground: How Israel and Turkey Are Shaping a Fragmented Middle East – LSE Blog, August 26, 2025

What’s next for Turkey after local elections put Erdoğan on notice – The Conversation, April 16, 2024

The Turkish-Somali Connection: Why does the Horn of Africa Matter for Turkey? – LSE Blog, May 6, 2024

Nagorno-Karabakh: What’s next for the South Caucasus region following Azerbaijan’s aggression against Armenians? – The Conversation, October 9, 2023

Turkey at the Polls: An Election Like No Other – LSE Blog, May 12, 2023

Erdoğan’s Electoral Victory Imperils Democratic Forces in Turkey – Truthout, May 30, 2023

Students in Tehran Protest Gender Segregation in University Dining Hall – Truthout, October 28, 2022 (co-authored)

Urban Kuwait: Revisioning and Rewriting the City from Below – LSE Blog, September 21, 2022 (co-authored)

Kuwait City and its Fragments – LSE Blog, April 5, 2022 (co-authored)

Is Left populism possible? – Open Democracy, January 11, 2021

Situating populism beyond the deformation of Eurocentric and post-democratic narratives – #Rethinking Populism, May 11, 2021 (conversation with Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia)

Narrating the pandemic: COVID-19 as a feature of Turkey’s political landscape – Institute for Social Responsibility – July 7, 2020

What Is in a Place? Hagia Sophia in the Affective Topography of Populism in Turkey – Jadaliyya, August 2020

Charting the waters: populism as a gendered phenomenon – Open Democracy, January 27, 2020

Bringing gender into the populism debate: a guided walk – Open Democracy, December 16 2019

Securitizing the “Other” in the European Far-Right Imaginary – Political Trends & Dynamics in Southeast Europe, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 2019, 2, pp. 23-26.

Mobilizing Pity: Iranian Women on the Long Road to Azadi Stadium – Jadaliyya, October 2019 (co-authored)

The reconfiguration of Swedish nationalism after the Syrian refugee “crisis” – Nya former av nationalism, Goethe Institut Schweden, April 2018

Cypriot hopes for unification are on life support, but not doomed’ – The Conversation, January 22, 2018

The Turkish election as a warning against the irresistible charms of populism – OpenDemocracy July 13 2018

Cypriot hopes for unification are on life support, but not doomed’ – The Conversation, January 22, 2018

¿Qué significa el reconocimiento de Trump a Jerusalén como la capital de Israel para el Medio Oriente? – Dialoguemos, December 12, 2017 (co-authored)

The Jerusalem Question in a Regional Context – The Globe Post, December 12, 2017 (co-authored)

What Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel means for the Middle East – The Conversation, December 7, 2017 (co-authored)

Jérusalem, le nœud gordien des Israéliens et des Palestiniens – The Conversation, December 7, 2017 (co-authored)

Turkey: of coups and popular resistance – Open Democracy, 2016 July 21

Turkish reactions on the Greek antiracism Law, Council of European Studies, Columbia University 2015 (co-authored)

Grassroots Diplomacy in the Southern Balkans – The Bridge: A bimonthly review on European integration, SE Europe & the SE Mediterranean. 9(2) 2008