. Nathan J. Brown
Website updated 16 January 2009 Professor of Director, Institute for Middle East
Studies The George Washington University Nonresident Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace Carnegie web page for Nathan Brown available here
Curriculum vitae |
Recent Research
Published Books
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Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords: Resuming
Arab Palestine ( §
Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws & the
Prospects for Accountable Government (SUNY Press, 2001) §
The Rule of Law in the Arab
World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf (Cambridge
University Press, 1997) §
Peasant Politics
in Modern Work on Islamist
Parties in the Arab World available on the web §
“Kuwait’s 2008
Parliamentary Elections: A Setback for Democratic Islamism,”
Carnegie web commentary, May 2008 §
“The Draft Party Platform of
the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Foray Into Political Integration or Retreat
Into Old Positions?” with Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie Paper,
January 2008 §
“What Islamists Need to be
Clear About: The Case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,”
Carnegie Web Commentary, February 2007 (with Amr Hamzawy and Marina Ottaway) §
“Pushing Toward Party
Politics? Kuwait’s Islamic
Constitutional Movement,” Carnegie Paper, January 2007 [Note: Mohammed Hussein Al-Dallal of the Islamic Constitutional Movement issued a response
to this paper] §
“Jordan and Its Islamist
Movement: The Limits of Inclusion?” Carnegie Paper, November
2006 §
“Islamist Movements and the
Democratic Process in the Arab World: Exploring Gray Zones,”
Carnegie Paper No. 67, March 2006, with Amr Hamzawy and Marina Ottaawy §
“Can Cairo Reassemble
Palestine?” Carnegie Web Commentary, November 2008 §
“Palestinian Presidential
Elections,” Carnegie Web Commentary, July 2008 §
“Sunset for the Two State
Solution?” Carnegie Policy Brief No.58, May 2008 §
“The Road Out of Gaza,”
Carnegie Policy Outlook No. 39, February 2008 §
“The Peace Process Has No
Clothes: The Decay of the Palestinian Authority and the International
Response,” Carnegie Web Commentary, June 15, 2007 §
“Requiem for Palestinian
Reform: Clear Lessons from a Troubled Record,” Carnegie
Paper, February 2007 §
“What Can Abu Mazin Do?” Carnegie Web Commentary,
October 20, 2006, updated June 15, 2007 §
“Living with Palestinian
Democracy,” Carnegie Policy Brief No. 46, May 2006 §
“Aftermath of the Hamas
Tsunami,” Carnegie Web Commentary, February 2, 2006 §
“Evaluating Palestinian
Reform,” Carnegie Paper 59, June 2005 §
Translation and commentary on draft Palestinian
constitution (May 2003 draft), published by the §
“The Palestinian Reform
Agenda,” Peaceworks report No. 48,
United States Institute of Peace, December 2002 §
“Democracy, History,
and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum,” paper
presented at the Adam Institute Conference on “Attitudes toward the
Past in Conflict Resolution,” Note: This paper prompted a critique from the
“Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace.” The critique and my response are available
on the web here. §
“The International Controversy
Concerning Palestinian Textbooks,” lecture delivered at the
Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, December 2002. §
Short summary of research on Palestinian
textbooks that originally appeared in “Teaching about
Terrorism” a publication of CAJE, the Coalition for the Advancement of
Jewish Education. Information about the publication can be obtained by
calling (212) 268-4210 or by e-mailing [email protected] Work on Iraqi politics available on the web §
“Is Political Consensus
Possible in Iraq?” Carnegie Policy Outlook, November 2005 §
“The Final Draft of the Iraqi
Constitution: Analysis and Commentary,”
September 2005 §
“Iraq’s Constitutional
Conundrum,” web commentary, August 2005 §
“Final Update on Iraq’s
Constitutional Process,” Carnegie Web Wommentary,
August 2005 §
“Iraq’s Constitutional
Process Plunges Ahead,” Carnegie Policy Outlook, July 2005 §
“Debating Islam in Post-Baathist Iraq,” Carnegie Policy Outlook,
March 2005 §
“Post-Election Iraq: Facing
the Constitutional Challenge,” Carnegie Policy Outlook,
February 2005 §
“Transitional Administrative Law” for Iraq:
analysis and commentary Work on Egyptian politics available on the web §
“Egypt—Don’t Give
up on Democracy Promotion,” Carnegie Policy Brief, June 2007
(with Michele Dunne and Amr Hamzawy) §
“Egypt’s Controversial
Constitutional Amendments,” Carnegie Web Commentary, March
2007 (with Michele Dunne and Amr Hamzawy) §
“Can Egypt’s Troubled
Elections Produce a More Democratic Future,” with Amr
Hamzawy, Carnegie Policy Outlook, December 2005 §
“Problems of Election
Monitoring in Egypt,” with Amy Hawthorne, Al-Dimuqratiyya, November 2005 §
“Egypt’s Judges Step
Forward: The Judicial Election Boycott and Egyptian Reform,”
with Hesham Nasr,” Carnegie Policy Outlook, May 2005 Work on Arab legal systems available on the web §
Islamic law and the Egyptian constitution; two article
with Clark Lombardi o
“Do
Constitutions Requiring Adherence to Shari`a
Threaten Human Rights? How Egypt's Constitutional Court Reconciles Islamic
Law with the Liberal Rule of Law,” 21 o
“The
Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt on Islamic Law, Veiling and Civil
Rights: An Annotated Translation of Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt
Case No. 8 of Judicial Year 17 (May 18, 1996),” 21 §
“Islam, Human Rights, and
Constitutionalism,” video of lecture delivered at §
“The Religious Aspects of
Arab Constitutions,” video of lecture delivered at §
“Criminal Justice and
Prosecution in the Arab World,” study prepared with Hesham
Nasr and Jill Crystal for the United Nations Development Program, Program on
Governance in the Arab Region,” October 2004 §
“Constitutions and
Accountable Governments in the Arab world,” 2003
Constitution Address, §
“Judicial Independence in the
Arab World,” study prepared with Dr. §
“Arab Judicial Structures,”
study prepared for the United Nations Development Program, Program on
Governance in the Arab Region, August 2001 §
“Mechanisms of Accountability
in Arab Governance: The Present and Future of Judiciaries and Legislatures in
the Arab World,” study prepared for the United Nations
Development Program, Program on Governance in the Arab Region, December 2001 §
“Women and Law in the Muslim
World,” unpublished paper, 1996 §
“Arab Administrative Courts
and Judicial Control of the Bureaucracy,” paper presented to
the annual conference of the Structure of Government Section, International
Political Science Association, |
