Samuel Helfont, Post-doctoral Lecturer, International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania · Fox Fellow, Program on the Middle East “Post-colonial States and the Struggle for Identity since World War Two” at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Middle East History Institute on "Understanding the Modern Middle East: History, Identity, and Politics" on October 17-18, 2015 in Philadelphia. For more on this event, including articles, PowerPoint presentations, and more: www.fpri.org/events/2015/10/understanding-modern-middle-east-history-identity-and-politics