Abdulkader Sinno

Email:

asinno@iu.edu

Website:

https://www.sinno.com/

Department:

Core Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Courses Recently Taught

• M239: US Foreign Policy and the Muslim World
• M339: Middle Eastern Politics
• M305: Muslims in the West
• M305: Palestine and Israel
• M695: Muslim Immigration and minorities in the West
• M695: Politics of Muslim Countries

Publication Highlights

• “Muslim, Christian Arab and Chaldean Paths to Political Integration: Representation, Participation and Activism in Metro Detroit,” in Uncertain Refuge: Vitality and Vulnerability in Arab Detroit, edited by Yasmeen Hanoosh, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming 2023.
• “Islam in Afghan conflicts and politics,” in Religion and politics in South Asia (second edition), edited by Ali Riaz. New York: Routledge, 2020, 53-75.
• “Different Groups, Different Threats: Public Attitudes toward Immigrants,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43 (3), 2016: 339-358 (with Tim Hellwig).
• “Partisan Intervention and the Transformation of Afghanistan’s Civil War,” American Historical Review 120 (5), December 2015: 1811-1828.
• “Muslim Americans and the political system,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Islam, edited by Yvonne Haddad and Jane I. Smith, 2014.
• Editor and contributor, “Researching Western Muslims,” special section of The Review of Middle Eastern Studies 46 (2) Winter 2012.
• “Armed groups’ organizational structure and their strategic options,” International Review of the Red Cross 93, No. 882, June 2012.
• “Opportunités et risques de la représentation des musulmans occidentaux dans les institutions élues,” in Minorités Visibles en Politique, edited by Esther Benbassa. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2011.
• “Toward Electability: Public Office and the Arab Vote,” in Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade, edited by Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. (with Eren Tatari)
• "Education, Income and Support for Suicide Bombings: Evidence from Six Muslim Countries." Journal of Conflict Resolution 54 (1), 146–78 (2010, with Najeeb Shafiq).
• "An Experimental Investigation of Causal Attributions for the Political Behavior of Muslim Candidates: Can a Muslim Represent You?" Politics and Religion 2, 247–76 (2009, with Eileen Braman).
• Editor, Muslims in Western Politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
• Editor and contributor, Muslims in Western Politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
• "An Experimental Investigation of Causal Attributions for the Political Behavior of Muslim Candidates: Can a Muslim Represent You?" Politics and Religion 2, 247–76 (2009, with Eileen Braman).
• Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2008.
• “Explaining the Taliban’'s Ability to Mobilize the Pushtuns”." In Decade of the Taliban, edited by Robert Crews. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008.