Princeton University puts the Spotlight on Professor Amaney Jamal

Workshop on Arab Political Development

Amaney Jamal currently directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development. Visit Website

The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice

Amaney Jamal is the Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University. Visit Website

Arab Barometer Project

Amaney Jamal is also co-PI of the Arab Barometer Project.   Visit Website

• Upcoming Events

  Enacting Masculine Love and Outrage Together: The Spatial Politics of Egyptian Ultras Football Fans
  

  Monday, October 16, 2017

  The Workshop on Arab Political Development, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton are pleased to co-sponsor a public lecture by Frances S. Hasso, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University. The talk title is based on her manuscript: Enacting Masculine Love and Outrage Together: The Spatial Politics of Egyptian Ultras Football Fans.
  o This event is free and open to the public. Location is Robertson Hall, Bowl 001 (lower level, Woodrow Wilson School).
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  We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
  

  Wednesday, October 25, 2017

  Professor Wendy Pearlman is visiting Princeton to discuss her new book: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria. This talk is cosponsored by the Workshop on Arab Political Development (WAPD), the Qualitative Research Colloquium (QRC), The Democracy and Development Research Initiative and the Comparative Politics Colloquium at Princeton University.
  In Bowl 016, Robertson Hall (lower floor, Woodrow Wilson School) Free and Open to the Public!
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  Sixth Annual Junior Scholars Book Development Workshop
  

  October 19 - October 20

  The Project on Middle East Political Science and the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice will hold the sixth annual Junior Scholars Book Development workshop, at Princeton University, on October 19-20, 2017. Junior scholars are post-PhD and have a complete manuscript of their first book ready for circulation and discussion. Each manuscript is to be discussed in depth by at least two senior scholars. The goal of the discussion is to prepare the manuscript for submission to an appropriate press. Research can focus on any aspect of the contemporary politics of the broader Middle East. The Call for Papers deadline has expired. This event is not open to the public.
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  Beirut Experiments Workshop – American University of Beirut
  

  February 23, 2018 - February 24, 2018

  The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice in conjunction with the Issam Fares Institute at AUB, Lebanon, is organizing an experiments workshop to be held on the AUB campus on February 23 and 24. The workshop will cover lab, survey and field experiments and selected papers will be reviewed and discussed. More details and a call for participants will be forthcoming.
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  AALIMS-Princeton Conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World
  

  April 20, 2018 - April 21, 2018

  The Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies in conjunction with the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) are pleased to announce the upcoming Conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World. The location and agenda are coming soon. This event is not open to the public. Scholars may contact Wendy Brill at wendyb@princeton.edu for information about attendance.
  An important component of the conference will be the Graduate Student Workshop, held the first morning of the conference.
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• Recent Publications

  What do ordinary citizens in the Arab world really think about the Islamic State? [one of the ten most widely read posts in the Washington Post of 2016]

  Posted on 12 January 2017

  What do ordinary Arabs think about the Islamic State? This spring, we added several questions to the standard battery of Arab Barometer surveys to find out. We asked a scientific sample of respondents in Tunisia, Jordan, Palestine, Algeria and Morocco the following questions:Read More

  Arab Responses to Western Hegemony: Experimental Evidence from Egypt

  Posted on 3 August 2016

  Scholars have long held that Islamism—defined as a political ideology that demands the application of Islamic holy law and the deepening of religious identity—is in part a response to Western domination of Muslim lands. Drawing on the literatures on nationalism and international relations theory, we argue that Islamism is one of a menu of options that Muslims may adopt in response to Western hegemony—a menu that includes Arab nationalism and pro-Western accommodation. Read More

  Using the Qur’ān to Empower Arab Women? Theory and Experimental Evidence From Egypt

  Posted on 28 April 2016

  A growing body of scholarship on the political and economic subordination of women in the Muslim world has argued that widespread patriarchal attitudes toward women’s roles in public life can be ameliorated by offering progressive reinterpretations of Islamic scriptures. In this article, we explore this hypothesis with a large-scale survey experiment conducted among adult Egyptians in late 2013. Comparative Political Studies, 2016

  Explaining Divergent Revolutionary Coalitions: Regime Strategies and the Structuring of Participation in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

  Posted on 21 Sep 2015

  The revolutions that swept through the Arab world in 2010–11 were massive political upheavals in which millions of citizens took to the streets against their respective regimes. (With Mark Beissinger and Kevin Mazur), Comparative Politics, October 2015.

  Does Islam Play a Role in Anti-immigrant Sentiment? An experimental Approach

  Posted on 10 Jun 2015

  Are Muslim immigrants subjected to targeted opposition (i.e., Islamophobia) on their pathway to US citizenship? Social Science Research, 2015.

• Past Events

  Winter Experimental Social Science Institute
  

  Florence, Italy, September 15 - September 16

  The Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University and the Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL) at New York University Abu Dhabi are pleased to announce the Winter Experimental Social Sciences Institute (WESSI) Workshop at New York University Florence Italy, to be held September 15-16, 2017. This workshop is organized by Rebecca Morton (NYU NYC and AD) and Amaney Jamal (Princeton University).
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  Teach-In Series: Islam & Contemporary Issues
  

  Thursday April 27 2017 at 12:00pm

  Islam under trial: Muslims and Civil Liberties - Sahar Aziz, Law Professor at Texas A&M
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  Conference on Electoral Realignments in Advanced Democracies
  

  May 18 - May 20

  Sponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Affairs and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. This conference will bring together senior and junior scholars who are undertaking cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research on the nature, causes, and consequences of the electoral realignments being witnessed in advanced democracies today.
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  Charles Harb “Why the War on “Islamic Terror” is Bound to Fail”
  

  April 17 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

  Why the War on “Islamic Terror” is Bound to Fail, a presentation by Charles Harb, Professor of Social Psychology, American University of Beirut. This visit and lecture is a result of a new faculty exchange program, part of a collaborative initiative between the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University and the American University of Beirut. This event is also presented with the help of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs. Click here for additional information.

  
  
  

  Workshop on Arab Political Development Graduate Seminar: Dr. Nermin Allam presenting “Whose Rights? Understanding Women’s Engagement in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising.”
  

  Thursday, April 13 at 5:00pm

  Open to Princeton University faculty and graduate students only. Department of Politics Qualitative Research Colloquium, the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Nermin Allam is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar at Princeton University. Allam holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Alberta.

  QrC WAPD Public Lecture: Professor David Waldner
  

  April 4 2017 at 6:00pm

  Welcome Professor David Waldner of the University of Virginia for a Public Lecture, free and open to the public.
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  Trump & the Constitution - The Rights of Immigrants & Refugees
  

  Thursday, February 9 2017

  A Workshop and Conversation with Kathryn Abrams, LAPA Fellow; University of California-Berkeley School of Law Amaney Jamal, Director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice Robert O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Sohaib Sultan, Muslim Life Chaplain Moderator: Paul Frymer, Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs Presented by the Program in Law and Public Affairs.

  
  

  January 2017 Winter Institute at NYU Abu Dhabi

  Designed to provide training for social science graduate students and junior faculty in experimental methods, broadly defined (lab, field, lab-in-the-field, biological, and survey experiments will be covered); including special sessions on the issues and concerns of conducting experiments in Africa, the ME, and surrounding region.

  
  

  2017 Bobst-American University of Beirut joint conference

  “Social Justice in the Arab World since 2010: Changing conditions, mobilizations, and policies.” Being held on the AUB campus in Beirut, Lebanon.
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  February 2-3, 2017
  

  “Does Economic Strain Induce Support for Islamism”. Co-authors: Sharan Grewal, Tarek Masoud and Elizabeth Nugent.

  November 1, 2016

  Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School

  Public Lecture: “Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics.” Professor Joseph Sassoon

  November 10 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

  Robertson Hall, room TBD
  FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
  Professor Joseph Sassoon will give a public lecture on November 10th, entitled “Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics.”
  Joseph Sassoon is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University and holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford. In 2013, his book Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the prestigious British-Kuwait Prize for the best book on the Middle East. Sassoon completed his Ph.D at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has published extensively on Iraq and its economy and on the Middle East. Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics (Cambridge University Press, 2016) is his fourth book.

  Winter Experimental Social Sciences Institute Alumni Workshop

  Posted on 9 May 2016

  September 2016 - Winter Experimental Social Sciences Institute Alumni Workshop, cosponsored by The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice with the Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL) at New York University Abu Dhabi. Invited social science PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior Assistant Professors in experimental social science will present their research designs or work in progress and receive personal feedback from noted scholars in the field, particular emphasis is placed on the participation of junior scholars who are planning or in the process of doing research in the Middle East region.

  Junior Scholars Manuscript Development Workshop

  Posted on 9 May 2016

  November 2016. Junior Scholars Manuscript Development Workshop, cosponsored by The Bobst Center and the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS). Post-PhD and pre-tenure scholars from all over who submit manuscripts are then selected by a committee to present their work to receive feedback, support and guidance toward submission to an appropriate press for junior scholarly publications. Senior scholars are on hand to provide critique, guidance and mentorship.

  Events Archive

  1st Presidential Debate and Watch Party, Co-Sponsored Event with the Dept of Politics & ODUS

  Posted on 26 September 2016