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NAMEAbdulkader Sinno

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

Education

  • M.A. at UCLA, 1997, Political Science
  • Ph.D. at UCLA, 2002, Political Science

Research Interests

  • Civil wars
  • Ethnic strife and other Territorial conflicts
  • Muslims in Western Politics
  • Political Islam

Contact Information

asinno@indiana.edu
Woodburn Hall 323
(812) 855-5885

Courses Recently Taught

  • Muslims in Western Politics
  • Researching Civil War
  • The Contemporary Middle East in World Politics
  • Comparative Politics of the Middle East & North Africa
  • International Political Controversies: The US involvement in Iraq & Afghanistan

Publication Highlights

  • Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2008.
  • Muslims in Western Politics, editor. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2008.
  • “Explaining the Taliban’s ability to mobilize the Pushtuns” in Decade of the Taliban, edited by Robert Crews. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008.