{"id":8,"date":"2015-09-30T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2017-08-03T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:22:22","slug":"2013-workshops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/2013-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"

February Workshop: Cairo, Egypt<\/h2>\n
\n
\"\"<\/div>\n
\n
\n

<\/h4>\n

\"AUC2\"<\/a>\u201cStates in Transition, Constitutional Engineering and Political Science Research\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n

APSA’s inaugural\u00a0MENA workshop was hosted\u00a0by the American University in Cairo (AUC) from February 9-14, 2014.\u00a0\u00a0The workshop was\u00a0co-led by John Huber (Columbia University, USA), Nolan McCarty (Princeton University, USA), Nadine Sika (The American University in Cairo, Egypt), and Bahgat Korany (The American University in Cairo, Egypt) and attended by 16 political and social scientists. Substantively, the one-week program focused on conceptualizations of democracy\/democratization and how these concepts are measured, studied, and analyzed in political science research. Participants drew on an extensive set of readings as well as their own research to discuss democracy and democratic changes in the Middle East. Afternoon sessions were devoted to spo specialized training in quantitative methods and in-depth introduction to the statistical analysis software Stata. Participants also made time to visit the Pyramids of Giza and enjoy the beauty of Al-Azhar Park. See the ReadingList.pdf<\/strong><\/a> and Schedule.pdf<\/strong><\/a> for more information on the Cairo workshop program.Following the February workshop, participants\u00a0had the opportunity to be paired with a senior scholar to\u00a0review their research and offer feedback\/comments. For the next three months they\u00a0revised their research for presentation and further feedback at a follow-up workshop in\u00a0June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/div>\n
\n

2013 Fellows<\/h3>\n
\n
\n
\n
\u2022 Mr. Chadi Abou Daher – Lebanese American University, Lebanon
\n\u2022 Ms. Jinan Al-Habbal – St. Andrews University, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Nermin Allam – University of Alberta, Canada
\n\u2022 Mr. Guy Burton – University of Nottingham, Malaysia
\n\u2022 Ms. May Darwish – Edinburgh University, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Wafaa Dawoud – Beni Suef University, Egypt
\n\u2022 Ms. Nermin El Molla – Cairo University, Egypt
\n\u2022 Ms. Mona Farag – University of Exeter, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Tereza Jermanova – University of Exeter, UK
\n\u2022 Mr. Abdul-Wahab Kayyali – George Washington University, USA
\n\u2022 Mr. Lucas Leemann – Columbia University, USA
\n\u2022 Mr. Karim Sadek – American University in Beirut, Lebanon
\n\u2022 Ms. Ilham Sadoqi – Mohammed V University-Souissi, Morocco
\n\u2022 Ms. Dima Smaira – Durham University, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Yossra Taha – Cairo University, Egypt
\n\u2022 Ms. Sarah Wessel – University of Hamburg, Germany
\n\u2022 Ms. Karen Young –\u00a0American University of Sharjah, UAE<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\"\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n

<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Alumni leaders and participants pose for a photo after the closing dinner in Al-Azhar park.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

June Workshop: Tunis, Tunisia<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Political Economy of Economic Development\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n

As a follow-up to the February workshop in Cairo, participants were invited a workshop organized in cooperation with Le Centre d\u2019Etudes Maghr\u00e9bines \u00e0 Tunis (CEMAT)\u00a0from June 4-9, 2014. The workshop was\u00a0co-led by Amaney Jamal (Princeton University, USA), Helen Milner (Princeton University, USA), and Nisreen Salti (American University in Beirut, Lebanon). The one-week program combined approaches from International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Economics to address “big questions” in the political economy of development. The program included a panel presentation on Tunisia’s National Electoral Commission given by local academics and politicians, as well as significant time for participants to present and receive feedback on their own research projects. The group also visited the ancient sites of El Jem and Kairouan. See the Syllabus.pdf<\/strong><\/a> and Schedule.pdf<\/strong><\/a> for more information on the Tunis workshop program. Concluding their participation in the 5-month MENA Workshop Fellowship, alumni were given three years’ complimentary membership to APSA and are now eligible to apply for small grants to support their further research.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Alumni participants and leaders pose at the steps of the El Mouradi Hotel in Gammarth, where the conference was held.
\n*Originally scheduled to take place in 2013, the Cairo and Tunis workshops were postponed to 2014 due to unrest in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February Workshop: Cairo, Egypt \u201cStates in Transition, Constitutional Engineering and Political Science Research\u201d APSA’s inaugural\u00a0MENA workshop was hosted\u00a0by the American University in Cairo (AUC) from February 9-14, 2014.\u00a0\u00a0The workshop was\u00a0co-led by John Huber (Columbia University, USA), Nolan McCarty (Princeton University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.apsanet.org\/mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}