Islamism, Democracy, and Peacebuilding with Tamirace Fakhoury, Nathaniel George, Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, and Ritika Lal (Fares Center International Conference 2024)
The Fares Center International Conference took place on April 18 and 19, 2024 at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
The U.S. in the Middle East: Questions about Dealing with Islamism, Democracy, and Peacebuilding
Friday April 19, 9:00-10:15 AM
Chaired by Professor Elizabeth Leake, The Fletcher School
Tamirace Fakhoury is Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict at the Fletcher School. In 2023, Tamirace earned the Carlsberg Monograph fellowship to write a book on political systems, conflict, and time in post-war societies.
Nathaniel George is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics of the Middle East at SOAS, University of London. He is a global political historian of the modern Arab world and United States foreign relations. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between revolution, counterrevolution, sectarianism, and empire.
Currently an Assistant Professor in Middle East History and Politics at Radboud University in the Netherlands, Mohamed-Ali Adraoui holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris (2011). He is mainly interested in the fields of International Relations of the Middle East, US Foreign Policy, Political Islam, Religiously motivated forms of violences, and Global Islamic networks.
Ritika Lal is a first year student in the Joint History/Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies doctoral program at NYU. Her research interests lie in histories of capitalism, petro-modernity, state formation, and corporations, with a particular focus on the Gulf region in the 20th century. She is especially interested in the development of information gathering practices, bureaucracies, and the social and business networks through which authoritarian and militarized structures come to be.
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