Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Email:

asinno@indiana.edu

Website:

https://www.sinno.com/

Department:

Core Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Courses Recently Taught

• Muslims in Western Politics
• Political Controversies in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Muslim World
• The Contemporary Middle East in World Politics
• Comparative Politics
• Researching the politics of the Muslim World
• Researching Civil War
• Researching the Politics of Western Muslims

Publication Highlights

• “Muslim Americans and the political system,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Islam, edited by Yvonne Haddad and Jane I. Smith, 2013.
• 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.