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​CONTACTS
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FACULTY INQUIRIES:
SHANA MARSHALL
[email protected]

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FELLOW INQUIRIES:
​SAMER ABBOUD
[email protected]

GENERAL CONTACTS:
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PEDAGOGY WORKING GROUP // [email protected]

BASSAM HADDAD // PEP Co-Founder:  [email protected]

MELISSA BEJJANI // Logistical Support: [email protected]

MICHAEL ERNST // Online Support: [email protected]

​FELLOW CONTACTS:

Claudie Fioroni (Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development, Geneva): Ethnography of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company

Ethan Jerome Morton (University of Arkansas): Palestinian Labor in the Settlement Industrial Zone of Mishor Adumim and Agricultural Labor on Settlements in the Jordan Valley

Salim Abu Thaher (Birzeit): Urban Socioeconomic Segregation in Palestine with Ramallah as a Case Study

Boian Boianov (UC-Santa Cruz): Politics of Water in Oman

Lana Salman (UC-Berkeley): Municipalities and Land Commodification in Tunisia

China Sajadian (CUNY): Reconfiguration of Rural Property Relations and Migration Patterns in Lebanon

Mohammed Rafi Arefin (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Politics of Sanitary Infrastructures in Cairo

​Artemis Kubala (Independent Scholar, Palestine): Case Study of Stone Quarries in West Bank Economy  
EDUCATOR CONTACTS:

Sayres Rudy (Independent Scholar): Marx and Capital

Max Ajl (Cornell University): Marx and Capital

Adam Hanieh (SOAS): Class Formation  

James Boyce (UMass, Amherst): Political Economy of the Environment

Sandra Halperin (University of London, Royal Holloway): State Formation

William Robinson (UC, Santa Barbara): Imperialism

Karen Pfeifer (Smith): Labor 

George DeMartino (University of Denver): Critique of Neoclassical Economics 

Dale Tomich (SUNY, Binghamton): World Systems Theory

Andrew Zimmerman (GW): Rural/Agrarian Politics and Economies

PEP PEDAGOGY WORKING GROUP:
Samer Abboud
Max Ajl
Omar Dahi
Bassam Haddad
Shana Marshall
Ziad Abu-Rish
PEP STEERING COMMITTEE:
Joel Beinin
Omar Dahi
Wael Gamal
Bassam Haddad
Adam Hanieh
Shana Marshall
Sherene Seikaly
Ahmad Shokr
Mandy Turner
Rafeef Ziadah
Tariq Dana
Samer Abboud
ASI ADMIN TEAM:
MELISSA BEJJANI: ASI ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
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Melissa Bejjani
 works with the Arab Studies Institute. She is a PhD candidate of Political Science at George Mason University.

MICHAEL ERNST: ASI / POLITICAL ECONOMY PROJECT COORDINATOR
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Michael Ernst
 received his BA from Bard College in 2014, where he studied the discourse of universal human rights with a concentration in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies. He is currently a fellow at the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad at AUC in Cairo, Egypt. Michael is the ASI / Political Economy Project Coordinator and a co-editor of the Foreign Policy media roundup on Jadaliyya.

JOHN WARNER: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
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​John Warner is the Research and Development Manager at the Arab Studies Institute. He received his MPhil in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and his MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. He has taught anthropology and Middle East studies at several different institutions, including Queensborough Community College, Hunter College, and New York University. He is currently a co-editor of Jadaliyya’s Arabian Peninsula page and formerly a co-editor of the Findings section of the scholarly journal Anthropology Now. He has also worked as an assistant director and field producer for Quilting Point, a documentary film collective.

TAREQ RADI: STATUS RAPPORTEUR & CINEMATOGRAPHER
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​Tareq Radi is a Palestinian-American organizer based in Washington, DC. He is currently the Public Affairs Coordinator at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Tareq is a host for the audio journal Status, where he hosts a regular segment entitled Reclaiming Academic Freedom. Before that, he graduated with a B.S in Finance from George Mason University (GMU), where he was a founding member and chairman of GMU’s Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA).

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