The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East. Yet, these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this volume, top experts on the region offer wide-ranging considerations of the characteristics, continuities, and discontinuities of the contemporary Middle East, addressing topics from international politics to political Islam, hip hop to human security.

1. Is There a New Middle East? What Has Changed, and What Hasn't? -Joel Beinin2. What Future for the Private Sector in the New Middle East? -Ishac Diwan
3. Education and Human Security: Centering the Politics of Human Dignity -Laurie A. Brand
4. Myths of Middle-Class Political Behavior in the Islamic Republic -Kevan Harris
5. Poets of the Revolutions: Authoritarians, Uprisings, and Rappers in North Africa, 1990s-Present -Aomar Boum
6. Islamism at a Crossroads? The Diffusion of Political Islam in the Arab World -Peter Mandaville
7. Islamists before and after 2011: Assuming, Overlooking, or Overthrowing the Administrative State? -Nathan J. Brown
8. Homeland (Dis-)Engagement Processes among the New Syrian Diaspora -Lindsay A. Gifford
9. Saudi Arabia: How Much Change? -F. Gregory Gause III
10. Erdogan, Turkish Foreign Policy, and the Middle East -Henri J. Barkey
11. The Syrian Civil War and the New Middle East -James L. Gelvin
12. State Building, Sectarianization, and Neo-Patrimonialism in Iraq -Harith Hasan
13. The Post-Uprising Transformation of International Relations in the Middle East and North Africa -Fred H. Lawson
14. Proxy War and the New Structure of Middle East Regional Politics -Marc Lynch
16. Afterword: The Fourth Dream -Moncef Marzouki