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I am currently working on an 150,000 word book under contract to Cambridge University Press. The working title is "Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East." I am focusing on the role of consent – with special reference to protest movements involving alternative programmes of political, moral and intellectual leadership, institutional disruption and mass appeal. The canvas is broad – the Maghrib, Egypt, the Mashriq and the Arabian peninsula since the eighteenth century. My particular angle is to pick away at the subjective dimensions of disruptive contestation – who the protagonists thought they were, what ideas and models inspired them, and how ideas and forms of protest circulated regionally and transnationally. The idea is to get away from endogenous socioeconomic determinism in the study of contentious politics, and to explore the importance of transnational political and cultural forms. Following fieldwork in the UAE and Kuwait, I am also publishing three articles on migration politics in the Arabian peninsula.