This roundtable is a collaboration between the Arab Political Science Network (APSN) and the MESA Global Academy. It will bring together two displaced scholars from MENA currently in North America who specialize in Middle East politics and two political scientists from the Middle East to discuss recent research trends and areas of challenge as well as opportunity for collaboration between political science scholars in North America and MENA. Selection of the presenters is contingent on those chosen as 2023-2024 MESA Global Academy fellows and APSN members attending the MESA Annual Meeting.