Karim El Taki
karimeltaki.bsky.social
Karim El Taki
@karimeltaki.bsky.social
Middle East IR, regional and global ordering, sovereignty, recognition, and other cool stuff

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Wow, hunger really went rogue in Gaza. And that food! So rude of it to stop going in. If only someone would kindly tell it to go in and the dying to stop!
August 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’
December 10, 2024 at 12:16 PM
The rule of law, liberalism, and the LIO altogether are antisemitic.
November 21, 2024 at 10:34 PM
During the 2017-21 Gulf Crisis, when Qatar 🇶🇦 faced severe sanctions by the so-called Anti-Terror Quartet, it affirmed its "sovereignty." Yet it also sought to expand and make permanent the 🇺🇸 al-Udeid airbase, hardly a marker of sovereignty. How can we make sense of that?

📲 doi.org/10.1080/1943...
November 15, 2024 at 7:12 AM
The end of the Cold War sparked debates about the decline of sovereignty, but today, this norm is increasingly invoked on a global scale. How can we understand this fall and rise of sovereignty?

📲 doi.org/10.1177/1369...
November 15, 2024 at 12:02 AM