Roger Owen

Bio:

Roger Owen, a contributing editor of this magazine, is director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University.

Articles by this Author


Yusif Sayigh	Yusif Sayigh (1916-2004) was a Palestinian nationalist, an Arab nationalist and one of the most influential exponents of Palestinian and Arab planning and development. He entered the national scene just after World War II as the primary organizer...	MER232
A New Post-Cold War System?	There was a short period, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the shape of the emerging post-Cold war system seemed quite clear. The disintegration of the Eastern Bloc would be complemented by further economic and political...	MER184
Al-Naqeeb, State and Society in the Gulf	*Khaldoun Hasan Al-Naqeeb, State and Society in the Gulf and Arab Peninsula: A Different Perspective* (trans. L. M. Kenny and amended Ibrahim Hayani) (Routledge, 1990).**	MER174
Egyptian Political Economy	*Robert Bianchi, Unruly Corporatism: Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt* (Oxford, 1989.)** Joel Migdal, Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the...	MER169
Kuran, The Long Divergence	*Timur Kuran, The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East* (Princeton, 2011).** Readers looking at the title of Timur Kuran’s new book might be forgiven for thinking it had come from some pre...	MER260
Sassoon, Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party	*Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).** Since the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the difficulties of writing about the...	MER266