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Abdulkader Sinno

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Woodburn Hall 335

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.
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