Introduction. The methodological and ethical challenges of conducting research in the Middle East and North Africa / Janine A. Clark and Francesco Cavatorta
part 1. Context.
Encountering the mukhabarat state / Jillian Schwedler and Janine A. Clark
What is so special about field research in Iran? Doing fieldwork in religiously charged authoritarian settings / Paola Rivetti and Shirin Saeidi
Authoritarianism, gender and sociopolitics in Saudi Arabia / Gwenn Okruhlik
Researching in and on the Palestinian occupied territories / Benoit Challand
Seeing beyond the spectacle : research on and adjacent to violence / Sarah E. Parkinson
Doing research during times of revolution and counterrevolution / Atef Said
Researching the countryside : farmers, farming and social transformation in a time of economic liberalization / Ray Bush
part 2. Methods.
Interviewing : lessons learned / Janine A. Clark
Interviewing Salafis : negotiating access and ethics / Massimo Ramaioli
Interviewing Salafis : overcoming fear and mistrust in Middle Eastern and European contexts / Zoltan Pall and Mohamed Ali Adraoui
Interviewing and gender / Emanuela Dalmasso
Process tracing and the political economy of development in the Middle East / David Waldner
Ethnography is an option : Learning to learn in/though practice / Stacey Philbrick Yadav
Coding in qualitative research / Mohammed Yaghi
Quantitative research in MENA political science / Miquel Pellicer and Eva Wegner
Of promise and pitfalls : population-based experimental research in the Middle East / Steven Brooke
Online media as research topic and research tool : fact, fiction and Facebook / Elizabeth Monier
Researching Twitter / Geoff Martin
part 3. Ethics.
Blurred lines of inclusion and exclusion : research ethics for political sympathizers / Irene Weipert-Fenner
Playing with positionality? Reflections on 'outsider'/'insider' status in the context of fieldwork in Lebanon's deeply divided polity / Paul Kingston
Intersectionality theory and working with 'both sides' / Lihi ben Shitrit
The (ambiguous) fieldwork experiences of a German Moroccan in Jordan / Malika Bouziane.