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Abdulkader Sinno
Indiana University Bloomington
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Woodburn Hall 210
Indiana University 1100 East 7th Street,
Bloomington IN 47405-7110
United States
ABOUT
Abdulkader Sinno is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a 2009 Carnegie Scholar. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2002 and was a CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. His first book, Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond (Cornell University Press, 2008; 2010 paperback edition) develops an organizational theory to explain the evolution and outcomes of civil wars, ethnic strife and other territorial conflicts. He is also editor of Muslims in Western Politics (Indiana University Press, 2009) and the author of articles and book chapters on Muslim representation in Western liberal democracies, public attitudes towards Muslim immigration, the Arab Spring, conflict in Afghanistan, and Islamist parties’ participation in elections. He is also Associate Editor of the Review of Middle Eastern Studies. (current as of December 2012)
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Conflict Resolution
Democratization
Ethnic American Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Security Studies
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
All Middle East
Specialties
Comp Pol & Intl Rltns
Ethn, Rel, & Other Politicized Cnflt
Islamist Parties
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2002 | Pol Sci | UCLA
Abstracts
When Mujtahids Learn from Rivals and Westerners: Explaining Change in the Positions of the Tunisian al-Nahdha Movement Muslim, Christian Arab and Chaldean Paths to Political Integration: Representation, Participation and Activism in Metro Detroit