Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. Notes on Contributors v
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Foreword xi
6. 1 Introduction: New Authoritarian Practices in the MENA Region: Key Developments and Trends 1
7. 2 Maintaining Order in Algeria: Upgrading Repressive Practices under a Hybrid Regime 30
8. 3 The Authoritarian Topography of the Bahraini State: Political Geographies of Power and Protest 51
9. 4 Authoritarian Repression Under Sisi: New Tactics or New Tools? 73
10. 5 Deep Society and New Authoritarian Social Control in Iran after the Green Movement 92
11. 6 Silencing Peaceful Voices: Practices of Control and Repression in Post-2003 Iraq 112
12. 7 Israel/Palestine: Authoritarian Practices in the Context of a Dual State Crisis 131
13. 8 Jordan: A Perpetually Liberalising Autocracy 152
14. 9 Libya: Authoritarianism in a Fractured State 171
15. 10 ‘The Freedom of No Speech’: Journalists and the Multiple Layers of Authoritarian Practices in Morocco 189
16. 11 New Authoritarian Practices in Qatar: Censorship by the State and the Self 208
17. 12 Digital Repression for Authoritarian Evolution in Saudi Arabia 228
18. 13 The Evolution of the Sudanese Authoritarian State: The December Uprising and the Unravelling of a ‘Persistent’ Autocracy 252
19. 14 Authoritarian Nostalgia and Practices in Newly Democratising Contexts: The Localised Example of Tunisia 276
20. 15 An Assemblage of New Authoritarian Practices in Turkey 296
21. 16 The United Arab Emirates: Evolving Authoritarian Tools 320
22. 17 Authoritarian Practice and Fragmented Sovereignty in Post‑uprising Yemen 340
23. Index 358