Dr Rory McCarthy
| Biography | I am an Associate Professor in Politics and Islam at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham, where I work on the comparative politics of the Middle East. I study the dilemmas of Islamism in the wake of the Arab uprisings, looking at the ambiguities and internal dynamics of contemporary Islamist mobilizations, with fieldwork funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and the Project on Middle East Political Science. I also write about the politics of protest in the Middle East through a comparative analysis of contentious politics. Before coming to Durham I spent three years as a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford. Previously, I worked as a foreign correspondent with the Guardian, with postings in Islamabad, Baghdad, Beirut, and Jerusalem. I have a BA in History from Cambridge and an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies and a DPhil in Oriental Studies from Oxford. I am a Fellow of the HEA. |
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| Research Interests | Islamism Comparative Politics of the Middle East Contentious Politics |
| ResearcherID | H-9909-2019 |
| Scopus Author ID | 56153982400 |