Sectarianization: An Interview with Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel

Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel speak about their new book, Sectarianization, and what it offers for the study of the Middle East in the post-Arab Spring era.

The following is a transcription of an interview with Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, editors of the new book, Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Hurst, 2017). At the site of last year’s Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference in Washington, D.C. (November 18 – 21, 2017), I sat with Hashemi and Postel to discuss the…