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Welcome to my academic web page.  I research strategy and organization in politicized group conflicts, parliamentary settings, and transnational relations.  The geographic areas I study closely are North Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan.  My first book presents a new perspective and theory to understand the evolution & outcomes of ethnic conflict, occupation and civil war. It contains studies of Afghan conflicts and broad statistical research.  Organizations at War in Afghanistan & Beyond was published by Cornell University Press in 2008.

My other major research interest is the politics of Muslim minorities in Western Europe and North America.  I organized an international conference at IU on the topic. An edited volume titled Muslims in Western Politics is forthcoming with Indiana University Press in Fall 2008.

I received my PhD in political science from UCLA in the summer of 2002, and spent a year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security & Cooperation (CISAC).  I am currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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The latest (research):

• I gave an invited talk titled “Of gains and options: Why do Islamist parties choose to compete electorally?”  at the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands on January 21, 2008.

• My edited volume Muslims in Western Politics is expected to be on the shelves in Fall 2008

• On November 1st, 2007, I gave an invited talk at Georgetown on Muslim Representation in Europe

• In August 2007, I presented a paper on the underpinnings of Muslim representation at APSA

• On April 26th, 2007, I gave a talk at University College of London titled "Full Citizens? Underpinnings of Muslim Representation in Western Parliaments."

• On November 6, 2006, I gave an invited lecture titled “Identity, Honor and Social Organization: Why foreign occupiers fail to establish loyal regimes in the ‘New’ Middle East” at UCLA’s Von Grunebaum Center for Near East Studies .

• In November 2005, I presented some of my latest research in two invited talks at Yale University

• I organized a conference (September 22-24, 2005) at IU that brought together 12 European and North American experts on "Muslims in Western Politics"

The latest (teaching and other activities):

• April 2 Interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• March 28 interview about Organizations at War with Steve Hinnefield

• Interview on al-Jazeera on March 10, 2008 on religion and politics in the United States

• Interview on Afgha.com

• Courses I'm teaching in Fall 2008

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