CONTACTS
GENERAL CONTACTS:
PEDAGOGY WORKING GROUP // [email protected] BASSAM HADDAD // [email protected] KYLIE BRODERICK // [email protected] STUDENT CONTACTS: Khuloud Alsaba (University of Edinburgh): Social Determinants of Health in Conflict-Affected Syria: Analyzing Militarization and Population Health Nimrod Ben-Zeev (University of Pennsylvania): Foundations of Inequality: Construction, Political Economy, and the Senses in Palestine/Israel, 1918-1993 Aviv Derri (New York University): Credit, Debt, and the Politics of Favor: Non-Muslim Merchant-Banking Families in Ottoman Damascus and its Hinterland (1840-1890) Tamer Elshayal (Harvard University): Infrastructures of Mobility and the Territoriality of State Power in Postcolonial Egypt (1970-2010) Cynthia Gharios (Leipzig University): The Nexus between Food Security and Financial Interests: Examining Gulf State Investments in Land and Agribusiness Abroad Rebecca Gruskin {Stanford University): Phosphates: Local Dissidence, Global Agriculture, and Environment and Gafsa, Tunisia, 1890s-1960s Layla Hashemi (George Mason University): Dynamics of Contention: Contemporary Political Economy and Dissent in Egypt and Iran Thayer Hastings (Graduate Center, CUNY): An Anthropology of Palestinian Citizenship in Jerusalem Safa Joudeh (SOAS University of London): Economic Zones as Spatial Strategy in Egypt and Tunisia Mariz Kelada (Brown University): Behind the Scene/Seen: Technical Workers and the Makings of the Political Economy of the Film Industry in Egypt Dima Krayem (University of Cambridge): Exploring the 'Integration' of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: From State Sovereignty to Bare Lives Jose Martinez (University of Cambridge): The Politics of Bread: Development, Dispossesion and Authoritarianism in Hashemite Jordan Jacob Mundy(Colgate University): Infrastructures of Order and Disorder: Technological Governance and the (Un)making of Modern Libya Tareq Radi (SOAS University of London): Financial Re-engineering Through Afforable Housing: Mapping the Expansion of Credit in the West Bank Schluwa Sama (University of Exeter): Colonial Continuities in Kurdistan: Peasants and the Agrarian Political Economy of Iraq Omar Sirri (University of Toronto): Performing State: Law and Security Practices in Baghdad Kenza Yousfi (University of Texas in Austin): Walling: Mobility, Phosphates, and Infrastructure in the Western Sahara |
EDUCATOR CONTACTS:
Samer Abboud (Arcadia University): Security - Development Nexus
Max Ajl (Cornell University): World Systems Theory & Agriculture Kristen Alff (Stanford): Corporate Capital(ism?) in the Colonized World Joel Beinin (Stanford University): Labor Muriam Haleh-Davis (UC Santa Barbara): Race and Capitalism Adam Hanieh (SOAS): Approaching Issues of Class Formation Sherene Seikaly (UC-Santa Barbara): Postcolonial Studies Ziad Abu-Rish (Ohio University): State Development |
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ASI ADMIN TEAM:
KYLIE BRODERICK: ASI EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR

Kylie Broderick is the Executive Administrator at the Arab Studies Institute, and the Managing Editor of both Jadaliyya and Tadween Publishing. She earned her MA in Middle East Studies at George Mason University in 2017.
CAROLE NAMEZ: ASI BUSINESS MANAGER

Carole Namez is the Business Manager of the Arab Studies Institute.