Contributors of Articles

Samir Amghar has a Ph.D. in Sociology at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris, France. He is the author of several books on Islam in Europe and political Islam. He has taught at several universities in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Khalil al-Anani is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and is the author of Inside the Muslim Brotherhood: Religion, Identity, and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Maryam Ben Salem has a Ph.D. in Political Science (University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) and holds a University Habilitation in Political Science. She is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Sousse. Her research is centered on political and religious activism, political participation, and gender.

Francesco Cavatorta is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Afrique et le Moyen Orient (CIRAM) at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. His research focuses on the dynamics of authoritarianism and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa.

Joseph Daher is Substitute Senior Lecturer at University of Lausanne, UNIL (Switzerland) and part time Affiliate Professor at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy). He is the author of Hezbollah: Political Economy of the Party of God (Pluto Press, 2016) and Syria After the Uprisings, the Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto Press and Haymarket, 2019).

Valeria Resta completed her Ph.D. at the University of Milan and is an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and at Bocconi University. Her researches deal with the functioning of political parties in authoritarian and transitional settings of the Arab World. She is coeditor of the Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa. Her latest article has appeared in the Italian Political Science Review.

Sarah. A. Tobin, Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway, is a cultural anthropologist of Islam and economy, politics and Syrian refugees in Jordan. Dr. Tobin's books are Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan (2016) and The Politics of the Headscarf in the U.S. (2018, with B.C. Welborne, A.L. Westfall, O. Celik-Russell). Her most recent and relevant article is “Vernacular Politics, Sectarianism, and National Identity among Syrian Refugees in Jordan,” which was published in Religions in 2018.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Jason Klocek is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame and a Senior Researcher at the United States Institute of Peace. His most recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

Benjamin R. Knoll is the John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa and is the coauthor of She Preached the Word: Women's Ordination in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Ruth Melkonian is Chair and Professor of the Political Science Department at Gordon College. Her recent book, Evangelicals and Immigration: Fault Lines Among the Faithful (Palgrave, 2019) is co-authored with Lyman Kellstedt. Her scholarly interests include Latin America, immigration, women and politics, and religion and international affairs.

Steven P. Millies is Associate Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. During the fall 2020 semester, he is the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ Visiting Fellow in Catholic Studies at Loyola University Chicago. His most recent book is Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters’ Road from Roe to Trump (Liturgical Press, 2018).

Ann Marie Wainscott is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University. Her work sits at the intersection of Islamic studies and religion and politics. Her book Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on Terror (Cambridge, 2017) examines how states can build incentive structures for religious actors that discourage dissent.