Dr. Abdulkader Sinno

Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington

Abdulkader Sinno is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a 2009 Carnegie Scholar. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2002 and was a CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. His first book, Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond (Cornell University Press, 2008; 2010 paperback edition) develops an organizational theory to explain the evolution and outcomes of civil wars, ethnic strife and other territorial conflicts. He is also editor of Muslims in Western Politics (Indiana University Press, 2009) and the author of articles and book chapters on Muslim representation in Western liberal democracies, public attitudes towards Muslim immigration, conflict in Afghanistan and Islamist parties’ participation in elections.