The Digital Middle East

This research initiative will explore access to the digital realm in the Middle East, how the internet and digital ICTs are being utilized by various actors, the materiality and context in which they are being used, and how these instruments can be used for individual, local, national, and global social, economic, and political transformations. The social, economic, and political aspects of the diffusion of digital technologies in the Middle East are of increasing importance to understanding the region at both the macro-level and at the level of the individual and how it affects daily life.

Click here to read more about another related CIRS research initiative, “Politics and the Media in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East.”