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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Abdulkader SinnoAbdulkader Sinno

  • Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

Education

  • Ph.D. at UCLA, 2002, Political Science

Research Interests

  • Civil wars
  • Ethnic strife and other Territorial conflicts
  • Muslims in Western Politics
  • Political Islam
  • Islamophobia

Contact Information

asinno@indiana.edu
Woodburn Hall 323

Courses Recently Taught

  • Muslims in Western Politics
  • Researching Civil War
  • The Contemporary Middle East in World Politics
  • Comparative Politics of the Middle East & North Africa
  • International Political Controversies: The US involvement in Iraq & Afghanistan

Publication Highlights

  • “Education, income and support for suicide bombings: Evidence from six Muslim countries” Journal of Conflict Resolution 54, No. 1, 146-178 (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, 247–276 (2009, with Eileen Braman).
  • ed. Muslims in Western Politics. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2009.
  • 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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