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Restor(y)ing the state : national narratives and regime resilience --. - Egypt under Nasser : the evolution of revolution --. - Egypt under Sadat and Mubarak : rescripting revolution, redefining legitimacy --. - Algeria from the liberation struggle through Boumedienne : historic to revolutionary legitimacy --. - Algeria from Bendjedid to the dark decade : the narrative fractures --. - Narrative rescriptings and legitimacy crises --. - Epilogue the official narrative and the "Arab Spring" : the limits of revolution

Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent, by Jillian Schwedler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 372 pages. $90 cloth, $30 paper, e-book. Creating Consent in an Illiberal Order: Policing Disputes in Jordan, by Jessica Watkins.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 230 pages. $99.99 cloth, $80 e-book.

The Political Economy of Education in the Arab World, edited by Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021. 297 pages. $85.

According to its Mission Statement, MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) is tasked with monitoring violations of academic freedom in the MENA region as well as in North America. Violations of academic freedom are often understood as comprising governmental attempts to prevent scholars from conducting scholarly research, publishing their findings, delivering academic lectures, and traveling to international scholarly meetings. However, CAF often addresses cases in which professors and academic researchers irrespective of discipline are harassed, persecuted, dismissed or detained for their peaceful professional or personal activities, particularly if they encourage respect for human rights. In some instances, the committee has also protested state violence that has deliberately targeted educational institutions' buildings or campuses.

Recent scholarship on diaspora-host state relations has increasingly examined the many dimensions of the involvement of communities abroad on the sending state. Much of this literature has focused on economic, political, and sociocultural remittances. This article shifts the focus to more structural elements as it seeks to read in various sending state institutions the very presence of a diaspora. Examples of institutional developments dating from independence to the present in government ministries, political parties, electoral and nationality laws, national boundaries, and sovereignty itself, are taken from the cases of Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The analysis is intended to serve as a first step in establishing a new research program aimed at discerning the deeper structural impact of diasporas on state formation in the sending country.

Cover Image: The Mogamma Building in Cairo, May 2015.Image source, https://tinyurl.com/y9emz699.