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 organized an international conference at Indiana University on Muslims in Western Politics and is the editor of a volume on the same topic (Muslims in Western Politics, Indiana University Press, 2009). He co-organized another international conference titled “State Building in Afghanistan and Iraq” (November 2009, funded by the McCormick Foundation) and is co-editing a related edited volume. He is preparing a new book manuscript on Muslim representation in Western liberal democracies (funded by the Carnegie Award) and another on Islamist parties’ participation in elections. He gave dozens of invited talks at universities and policy forums, in the U.S. and internationally. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Middle Eastern politics, politics of Muslims in the West, conflict processes and state building, and comparative politics. He is also Associate Editor of the Review of Middle Eastern Studies..