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May Workshop: Beirut, Lebanon<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>\u201cCivil Society Revisited: Researching Associational Life in Comparative Perspective\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n

APSA’s 4th annual MENA Workshop series began with a one-week program hosted by the American University of Beirut’s Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship <\/span>from May 16-20, 2016. The workshop was co-led by <\/span>Fateh Azzam (AUB Asfari Institute, Lebanon), Sandrine Gamblin (American University in Cairo, Egypt), Noora Lori (Boston University, USA), Augustus Richard Norton (Boston University, USA), and Denis Sullivan (Northeastern University, USA). Twenty-five PhD students and early career scholars attended as participants. Together, attendees <\/span>sought to revisit the concept of civil society in the wake of the Arab Uprisings. While there is broad agreement that civil society matters, the precise causal mechanisms by which it is believed to exert an influence remain understudied. As the region experiences upheavals and regime-change, a wide range of actors with sometimes competing ideologies struggle to define and operationalize the mechanisms for securing durable political reform, social stability, and lasting peace. These changing state-society dynamics offer a unique opportunity to reexamine, and potentially re-conceptualize, traditional understandings of civil-society. More broadly, the workshop also focused on issues of research design, approaches to political science inquiry, and issues associated with manuscript preparation and publication. See the Reading List.pdf<\/strong> <\/a>and Schedule.pdf<\/strong><\/a> for more information. Following the May workshop, participants had three months to revise their research for presentation and further feedback at a follow-up workshop in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2016 Fellows<\/h4>\n
\u2022 Ms. Rania AbdelNaeem – University of Oxford, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Yasmina Abouzzohour – University of Oxford, UK
\n\u2022 Mr. Ahmed Alowfi – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
\n\u2022 Ms. Zeynep Balcioglu – Northeastern University, USA
\n\u2022 Olga Bl\u00e1zquez S\u00e1nchez – Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid, Spain
\n\u2022 Ms. Stephanie Chaban – University of Ulster, UK
\n\u2022 Mr. Youssef Chouhoud – University of Southern California, USA
\n\u2022 Mr. Hamdi Echkaou – Mohamed V University-Rabat, Morocco
\n\u2022 Ms. Dana El Kurd – University of Texas at Austin, USA
\n\u2022 Mr. Matt Gordner – University of Toronto, Canada
\n\u2022 Mr. Johannes Gunesch – Central European University, Hungary
\n\u2022 Ms. Shimaa Hatab – Cairo University, Egypt
\n\u2022 Mr. Gertjan Hoetjes – University of Exeter, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Zuzana Hudakova – Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies, Switzerland
\n\u2022 Ms. Oula Kadhum – University of Warwick, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Natasa Kubikova – University of London-SOAS, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Yasmeen Mekawy – University of Chicago, USA
\n\u2022 Ms. Mariam Waheed – Cairo University, Egypt
\n\u2022 Ms. Sarra Moneir – Future University in Egypt, Egypt
\n\u2022 Mr. Abdelhamid Rhaiem – High Institute of Languages-Gabes, Tunisia
\n\u2022 Ms. Reham Rizk – Helwan University, Egypt
\n\u2022 Mr. Benjamin Schuetze – University of London-SOAS, UK
\n\u2022 Ms. Laura Wickstr\u00f6m – \u00c5bo Akademi University, Finland
\n\u2022 Mr. Mohammed Yachoulti – Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Participants and leaders pose on the steps of the AUB front gate<\/em><\/p>\n

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September Workshop: Amman, Jordan<\/h2>\n
As a follow-up to the May workshop in Beirut, participants were invited to a workshop in Amman from September 18-22, 2016. Daily sessions were structured around participant presentations and research discussions, providing significant opportunities for feedback from peer discussants and leaders. See the\u00a0Schedule.pdf<\/strong><\/a> for more information on the Amman program. Concluding their participation in the 5-month MENA Workshops Fellowship, alumni were given three years’ complimentary membership to APSA and are eligible to apply for small grants to support their further research. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Participants and leaders pose during an excursion to Ajloun Castle<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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