Illusions of Opportunity: Associational Networks, and the Politics of Advocacy in Postwar
The Anti-Poltics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society and Governance Promotion in Postwar Lebanon
Religious ‘Centres’ and Religious ‘Edges’: Conceptualising Islamic Violence in Contemporary Egypt
Awards & Grants
2001 Workshop grant, Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade "States within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post Cold War World".
2001 GRG Grant .
1999 GRG Grant "the Politics of NGOs in Lebanon"
Teaching Interests
Politics and Society in the Middle East I
Politics and Society in the Middle East II
International Development Studies: Advanced Seminar
Publications
"Promoting Social and Political Accessibility: The Disability Movement in Postwar Lebanon", Middle East Journal. Forthcoming 2010
Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945 to 1958, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (hbk.) and 2002 (pbk.)
"Donors, Patrons, and Civil Society: Environmental Politics in Postwar Lebanon in Global Perspective" in (eds.) O.P. Dwivedi and Jordi Diez, Environmental Management in a Global Context: Perspectives from the South, Broadview Press, 2008.
"Promoting Civil Society in the Middle East and at Home: NGO’s, CIDA and the Middle East Working Group, 1991-2001" in (eds.) Paul Heinbecker and Bessma Momani, Canada and the Middle East: Theory and Practice, Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007.
"Contextualizing States within States: An Historical and Theoretical Introduction": in (eds.) Kingston and Spears, States within States: Incipient political Entities in the Post Cold War Era, Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004, pp. 1-14.
