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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• 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

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Politics and Society in the Middle East I
• Politics and Society in the Middle East II
• International Development Studies: Advanced Seminar

Affiliations

• 2006-2008 Board, Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
• 2004-2009 Editorial Board, MIT-E Journal of Middle East Studies
• 2005-2007 Editorial Board, Undercurrents, Canadian Undergraduate Journal in Development Studies

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" $8, 100.
• 2001 GRG Grant $1, 500.
• 1999 GRG Grant "the Politics of NGOs in Lebanon" $3, 000

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.