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Bessma Momani
University of Waterloo
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (519) 888-4567
Department of Political Science
University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West
Waterloo ON N2L 3G1
Canada
ABOUT
Dr. Bessma Momani is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science and Assistant Vice-President, Research and International in the Office of Research at the University of Waterloo. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States’ Institute in Washington, DC, and a Fulbright Scholar. She was interim Assistant Vice-President, International at the University of Waterloo, a 2015 fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and also previously served as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, and was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Mortara Center. She has worked as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, both in the communications office and the Independent Evaluation Office.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Banking & Finance
Current Events
Foreign Relations
Middle East/Near East Studies
Trade/Investment
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Jordan
Specialties
Econ Liberalztn
Gulf Cooperation Council
Intl Monetary Fund
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2002 | Pol Sci | U of W Ontario
Abstracts
Jordan’s New Urban Landscape: Inclusive Urban Planning or Democratic Deficit? Arab Gulf Investments into Non-Inclusive Urban Development in the Middle East: Social Exclusion and Frustration Arab Youths’ Sense of Belonging to Canada: Integrated and Hyphenated Identities