Study of the Middle East and Africa

Sponsor Deadline: 

Mar 31, 2017

Sponsor: 

Assn. for the Study of the Middle East and Africa ASMEA

UI Contact: 

ASMEA url  https://asmea.nonprofitcms.org/c/conferences/5/pages/grantprograms
 

Research Topics:

Status of Minorities and Women:

-The Coptic Church and Egypt;
-Alevis, Bahai, Berbers, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Yazidis;
-Successes and failures of feminism and women’s rights;

Modern Military History:

-Conventional conflicts past and ongoing;
-Terrorist groups, ideologies, and finances;
-Approaches to national security, deterrence, and proliferation;
-Governance and Economy.

Outcomes of the Arab Spring:
-Methods of retaining power- elections, patronage, coercion;
-Progress towards political reform;
-Economic reforms and trends, rentier state limitations, corruption.

Belief:
-Heterodoxy and Islam;
-Reform movements and new religious practices;
-Responses to dhimmitude;
-Shia and Sunni apologia and polemics;
-Islamist approaches to faith;

Personal status:
-Tradition, faith, cultural norms and individual freedom;
-Family law and legal reforms;
-Influence of education, global culture, and secular-liberalism.

 

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