Abdelwahab El-Affendi is President and Provost at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI). Prior to that he was Reader in Politics at the Centre for the Study of? ?Democracy at the University of Westminster (until 2015), Senior Research Associate at St Anthony’s College, of Oxford (1990), Visiting Fellow at CMI (Bergen 1995, and 2003), at Northwestern (2002), and at Cambridge (2010-2012). He delivered keynote speeches at universities in five continents, including 15 major US and UK universities. His publications include: Genocidal Nightmares: Narratives of Insecurity and the Logic of Mass Atrocities (2015); and After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory (2021), co-edited with K. Al Anani.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Passions of the HeadAbdelwahab El-AffendiChapter I: Agonistic Democracy, Passions and Left Populism: A Hegemonic Approach Chantal MouffeChapter II: Populism and the Permanent Crisis of DemocracyAzmi BisharaChapter III: After Politics? Populism and the Political Theology of Marxian Spectres Abdelwahab El-AffendiChapter IV: Populism and Political ChangePaulina TambakakiChapter V: Towards a Populist FeminismLuciana CadahiaChapter VI: Thy Name is my Enemy: Should we Make the Foreign Familiar or The Familiar Foreign? Hamid DabashiChapter VII: The Enigma of Left Populism: A View from Contemporary India Uday ChandraChapter VIII: The Emotional Roots of Populist Mobilizations: Empirically Testing Chantal Mouffe’s Affective Approach to Populism? Abdelkarim AmengayChapter IX: The Sick Leviathan: Understanding Populism in the Arab worldRachid BoutayebChapter X: “I am not a Theorist of Populism”: A Conversation with Chantal Mouffeby Majd Abuamer & Yara NassarBibliography

This is an excellent and philosophically rich analysis of the contemporary phenomenon of populism. El-Affendi has expertly brought together leading intellectuals from different regions of the world to debate whether populism can potentially galvanize or will ultimately destroy democracy. This is timely volume as populism appears to grow ever greater global power and influence.