Graduate studies committee

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses	Summer ‘15	Fall	Spring		Total
300 and above	02	59	69			130
211-299	66	511	616			1193
200-210	61	299 256		616
100-199 Total	0 129	57 53 926 994		110 2049

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses	Summer ‘15	Fall	Spring			Total
300 and above	42	171	156		369
211-299	12	93	105		210
200-210	09	33		30 72
100-199	00	06		06 12
Total	63	303 _		297 568

4. 
   RESEARCH
   

Samer Frangie

1. 
   Research for a book project entitled “The Politics of the Aftermath: Tradition, Politics and Marxism.”
   
2. 
   Research on an article tentatively entitled “Environment and Politics in Lebanon.”
   

Ohannes Geukjian

1. 
   Lebanon after the Syrian Withdrawal.
   
2. 
   Russian Military Intervention in Syria.
   

Tania Haddad

1. 
   Ongoing project on governance of Nonprofit Sector in Lebanon.
   
2. 
   Ongoing project on civil society and advocacy in Lebanon.
   
3. 
   Ongoing project on volunteering in Lebanon.
   

Waleed Hazbun

1. 
   “Jet Set Frontiers in the Middle East.” Book manuscript in progress. Funded in part by World Wings International Inc. Research Grant.
   
2. 
   Co-editor and contributor to Between Autonomy and Intervention: Regional Politics Since the Arab Uprisings, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, forthcoming) based on AUB-DIIS research collaboration.
   
3. 
   Member, AUB research team, Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture (MENARA): Mapping Geopolitical Shifts, Regional Order and Domestic Transformations research project coordinated by CIDOB - Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. Funded by European Union H2020 grant (AUB’s share of grant 90,000 Euro). 
   
4. 
   Member, working group, “Critical Security Studies in the Arab World,”
   
5. 
   research project, supported by the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS).
   

Coralie Hindawi

1. 
   Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
   
2. 
   Knowledge Production and Doctrine Formation in the security Sector: Deconstructing narratives in the case of Iraq (Research Scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Sept. 2014-Sept. 2015, Amount: 26 460 Euros).
   
3. 
   Creative Diplomacy amidst a Brutal Conflict: Analyzing the OPCW-UN Joint Mission for the Elimination of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Program.
   

Hilal Khashan

1. 
   “The Status of Christians in the GCC countries.” This piece deals with the lack of worship places for Christian in the Gulf, particularly in Saudi Arabia.
   
2. 
   “The Syrian Uprising from an Authoritarian Perspective.” This piece argues that the Syrian uprising was inevitable since the distributive capacity of the regime lagged far behind its coercive capability.
   

Hiba Khodr

1. 
   “The Implications of Arab Revolutions on US Foreign Policy towards Islamic Organizations: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Mubarak Egypt.” Submitted to journal.
   
2. 
   “Globalization, privatization, and public administration: a case study of Lebanese structural adjustment reforms following Paris III.” Submitted to journal.
   
3. 
   “Policymaking and civil Society: The case of Women’s Citizenship and Nationality Rights in Lebanon.” In progress.
   

Karim Makdisi

1. 
   Finalizing an edited volume, Land of Blue Helmets: UN in the Arab World (University of California Press).
   
2. 
   Lead researcher at AUB, European Commission Project, “Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture (MENARA): Mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations.”
   
3. 
   Working on a project exploring international disarmament, focusing on the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons.
   
4. 
   Continuing work on a project analyzing the politics of the United Nations in Lebanon.
   

Danyel Reiche

1. 
   Working on the “Politics of the Olympic Games” by working on a book, peer-reviewed articles, organizing two workshops, giving talks at international conferences and doing research abroad (see 2).
   
2. 
   Visiting Scholar: The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, USA, in summer 2015 and summer 2016.
   

Tariq Tell

1. 
   Politics of the Military in Modern Jordan.
   

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
Ohannes Geukjian

1. 
   Academic adviser to BA and MA students in Political Studies.
   
2. 
   Thesis adviser to two MA students.
   
3. 
   Thesis committee member to two MA students.
   
4. 
   Coordinator of the Inter-University Program on International Criminal Law funded and directed by the Special Tribunal of Lebanon.
   
5. 
   Faculty adviser to the PSPA Society.
   
6. 
   Faculty adviser to the UNICEF Club.
   
7. 
   Faculty adviser to the Lebanese-Armenian Heritage Club.
   

Samer Frangie

1. 
   Editorials in al-Hayat.
   
2. 
   Reviewer Cambridge University Press.
   
3. 
   Lecture: “Penser l’histoire de la gauche à travers ‘Three Posters’ et ‘On Three Posters’”, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, October, 23, 2015.
   
4. 
   Lecture: “Activism, Contestation, and Criticism in Lebanon”, Ashkal Alwan HomeWork 7, Beirut, November 14, 2015.
   
5. 
   Lecture : “Who Stinks? Social Protests and Political Change in Lebanon,” Carnegie Middle East, Beirut, November 10, 2015.
   
6. 
   “The Time is Out of Joint”, Exhibition Consultant, Sharjah Art Foundation and Asia Culture Center, Sharjah, March 12-June 12, 2016 and Gwangju, April 8-17, 2016
   
7. 
   Sociology Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, Spring 2016.
   
8. 
   Chair of Public Administration search committee, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, 2015/2016.
   
9. 
   Program Learning Outcomes Coordinator, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, 2015/2016.
   

Tania Haddad

1. 
   Advisor, Public Administration undergraduate and graduate students.
   
2. 
   Chair, PA graduate application committee.
   
3. 
   Member, Political Studies recruitment committee.
   
4. 
   Member, Public Administration recruitment committee.
   
5. 
   Thesis advisor for three Public Administration graduate students.
   
6. 
   Thesis reader for one additional AUB graduate student.
   
7. 
   Asfari Institute for Civil Society, Member of the Steering Committee.
   

Waleed Hazbun

1. 
   “The Jet Set Frontier in the Middle East,” presentation at University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, May 2016.
   
2. 
   “New ‘Empires of the Air’? Middle East Airport Hubs and the Shifting Geopolitics of Global Aviation” paper presented at Airport Culture(s), an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute for Modern Language Research, London. April 28-29, 2016.
   
3. 
   “Jet Set Frontiers: Tourism, Hijackings, Petrodollars, and the Politics of Aeromobility from Beirut to the Gulf,” presentation at Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University. March 7, 2016.
   
4. 
   “Beyond the American Era? Turbulence and interdependencies in US-Middle East relations,” paper presented at After the Uprisings: The Arab World in Freefall, Fragmentation or Reconfiguration? Conference at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. March 4-5, 2016.
   
5. 
   “The Eclipse of the US ‘Empire of the Air’ and the challenge of the Gulf Airlines,” paper presented at Fragments of Empire After the American Century conference sponsored by the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, January 13-15 2016.
   
6. 
   “Regional insecurities and the end of the American era” presentation at The International Aspect of the Syrian Conflict: A View from the Region at the Danish Institute for International Studies, December 18, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark.
   
7. 
   Panelist, MIT Alumni Faculty Forum on line, After Iran, December 15, 2015.
   
8. 
   “Middle East Airlines and the making of Beirut as a regional travel hub,” paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) meeting, Denver, CO, November 21-24, 2015.
   
9. 
   Presenter, EISA Exploratory Symposia on “The role of (scholarly) identities in the study of identities in Middle East international relations,” Rapallo, Italy. November 4-7, 2015.
   
10. 
    “Jet Set Frontiers: Tourism, Hijackings, Petrodollars, and the Politics of Aeromobility from Beirut to the Gulf,” presentation at University of Turin, Italy. November 4, 2015.
    
11. 
    “The Eclipse of the US ‘Empire of the Air’ and the challenge of the Gulf Airlines,” presentation to Arab crossroads program, New York University-Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), October 28, 2015.
    
12. 
    “Assembling security in a ‘weak state:’ The contentious politics of plural governance in Lebanon since 2005” at The ‘state’ of Lebanon: Concepts of political order in crisis workshop organized by the at Orient-Institut Beirut, October 15-16, 2015.
    
13. 
    “Jet Set Frontiers: Tourism, Hijackings, Petrodollars, and the Politics of Aeromobility from Beirut to the Gulf,” presentation to the Anthropology of Tourism Seminar, SOAS, University of London, October 13, 2015
    
14. 
    Director, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, 2012- current.
    
15. 
    Chair, Steering Committee, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies (CAMES).
    
16. 
    Executive Committee, Center for American Studies and Research.
    
17. 
    Program faculty, MA Program in Public Policy and International Affairs/PSPA.
    
18. 
    Member, Internal Review Committee, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages.
    
19. 
    Chair, Program Review Committee, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, 2015-16.
    
20. 
    Member, Search Committee for Director and Edward Said Chair, Center for American Studies and Research, 2014-15.
    
21. 
    Founder and Co-organizer, Middle East and North Africa Tourism Studies Network
    
22. 
    Awards Evaluation Committee, Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) 2015 Dissertation Award and Graduate Paper Prize.
    
23. 
    Editorial Board, Journal of Tourism History.
    
24. 
    Editorial committee, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
    

Hilal Khashan

1. 
   Presented a paper on Nov. 24, 2015 at Stratfor, in Austin, Texas on the Syrian uprising.
   
2. 
   Presented a paper in Rome organized by Munich University on the status of Christians in the Gulf. The conference convened during Feb. 24-26, 2016.
   

Hiba Khodr

1. 
   Advisor for graduate students of the Energy Studies Program.
   
2. 
   Participated in the assessment of the PA program learning outcomes (PLO) report by evaluating the PLOs of one of the courses I taught in the spring of 2015-2016.
   
3. 
   Continuing member of the AUB Institutional Review Board- IRB.
   
4. 
   Member of the Munib and Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources
   
5. 
   Advisor for the Insight Club at AUB.
   
6. 
   Faculty Advisory Member of the board of the Research Advocacy and Public Policymaking Program (RAPP) at Issam fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs (2009-ongoing).
   
7. 
   Presented a Paper entitled “The Interplay between Politics and Policy in Combatting Terrorism: The case of Lebanon” at the International Conference on Public Policy and Governance at the annual AMEPPA conference in Cairo, Egypt (December 5-7, 2015).
   
8. 
   Attended the International Conference International Conference on Public Policy and Governance” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (June 15-16, 2015).
   

Karim Makdisi

1. 
   Director, Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA).
   
2. 
   Faculty Research Director, “UN in the Arab World” program, IFI, AUB.
   
3. 
   Primary Investigator, “Developing a Graduate Program in Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut”, International Development and Research Center (IDRC), IDRC Grant of $30,000.
   
4. 
   Primary Investigator (PI), “Analyzing the OPCW-UN Joint Mission for Eliminating Chemical Weapons in Syria,” United Nations Grant: $30,000.
   
5. 
   Advisor, International Affairs Club, AUB.
   

Danyel Reiche

1. 
   Instructor at Harvard Summer School 2016.
   
2. 
   Organizer of a workshop “The Arab Countries and the Olympic Games” in cooperation with Fares Center at Tufts University.
   
3. 
   Talk on “Elite sport in developing countries: The case of Lebanon’s participation in the Olympics”, Political Studies Association 2016 Sport and Politics Conference, Bournemouth, England, 03/04/2016.
   
4. 
   Talk on “Elite sport in developing countries: The case of Lebanon’s participation in the Olympics”, World Congress on Elite Sport Policy, Melbourne, Australia, 11/23/2015.
   
5. 
   Talk on “Promoting internationalism at the Olympic Games: Allowing athletes from different countries to be in the same team”, North American Society for the Sociology of Sports (NASSS) – 2015 Conference, Santa Fee/New Mexico, USA, 11/05/ 2015.
   
6. 
   Reviewing manuscripts for International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics; Journal of Environmental Planning and Management; Environmental Development; Middle East – Topics & Arguments; Review of International Political Economy; The Arab World Geographer; Third World Quarterly.
   
7. 
   Reviewing abstract submissions for the 2016 European Sport Management Conference in Poland.
   
8. 
   Reviewing a book for Rowman & Littlefield.
   
9. 
   Member of the Undergraduate Admissions Committee, FAS.
   
10. 
    Member of the Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee, FAS.
    
11. 
    FAS representative in the AUB Open House Committee.
    
12. 
    Liaison between the Library and PSPA.
    
13. 
    Organizer of the PSPA brown bag series.
    
14. 
    Responsible for the PSPA Twitter account and Facebook page.
    
15. 
    Chair of a PS promotion committee.
    
16. 
    Chair of a PS recruitment committee.
    
17. 
    Member of two PSPA thesis committees.
    
18. 
    Conference travel grant, CASAR, AUB (November 2015).
    
19. 
    Faculty development grant (short-term), FAS, AUB (November 2015).
    

Tariq Tell

1. 
   Referee, first cycle postdoctoral grants, Arab Council of the Social Sciences.
   
2. 
   Member, FAFS committee on food security.
   
3. 
   Teaching faculty, PPIA MA program.
   

5. 
   PUBLICATIONS
   

Samer Frangie

1. 
   “Exiled from History: Yasin al-Hafiz’s Autobiographical Preface and the Transformation of Political Critique,” Thesis Eleven, forthcoming.
   
2. 
   “The Anatomy of a Crisis: On Mahdi ‘Amil’s Naqd al-Fikr al-Yawmī,” Arab Studies Journal, forthcoming.
   
3. 
   “Historicism, Socialism and Liberalism After the Defeat: On the Political Thought of Yasin al-Hafiz,” Modern Intellectual History 12:2 (2015): 325-352.
   

Ohannes Geukjian

1. 
   “Lebanon after the Syrian Withdrawal.” Middle East Journal 68:4 (2014): 521-545.
   
2. 
   “Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh: A not so Frozen Conflict.” In Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr., ed., Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, Vol. 1, 2^nd Edition, (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO: 2015).
   

Tania Haddad

1. 
   “Civil Society in conflict and post conflict society: the case of Lebanon.” Forthcoming in Voluntas.
   
2. 
   Cooperation and confrontation: State-nonprofit relationship In post war Lebanon.” Book chapter accepted for publication.
   
3. 
   With Elie El Hindi, editors, “Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World: In the Vortex of Globalization and Tradition” edited volume accepted by Oxford University Press (OUP). Manuscript completed. Under Review.
   
4. 
   “Volunteering in Lebanon: An exploratory Study.” Working paper.
   
5. 
   “Governance and Accountability of Nonprofit Sector in Lebanon.” Working paper.
   
6. 
   “Assessing the legal framework governing nonprofit sector in Lebanon.” Working paper.
   
7. 
   With Elie El Hindi, “Lebanese Civil Society and Civic Engagement: Factors of Success and Failure.” Working paper.
   

Waleed Hazbun

1. 
   “Assembling Security in a ‘Weak State:’ The Contentious Politics of Plural Governance in Lebanon since 2005,” Third World Quarterly, 37:6 (2016): 1053-70.
   
2. 
   “A History of Insecurity: From the Arab Uprisings to ISIS,” Middle East Policy, 22, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 55-65.
   
3. 
   “The Uses of Modernization Theory: American Foreign Policy and Mythmaking in the Arab World,” in American Studies Encounters the Middle East, ed. Marwan Kraidy and Alex Lubin. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2016.
   
4. 
   “Beyond Petromodernity: Excavating pathways for Khaleeji Tourism Studies,” in International Tourism and the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities, ed. Marcus L. Stephenson and Ala Al-Hamarneh London: Routledge, 2016.
   
5. 
   “The Folds of Place: Re-visiting questions of travel in Israel/Palestine,” in The Politics and Power of Tourism in Palestine, ed. Rami K. Isaac, et al., pp. 166-177. London: Routledge, 2016.
   
6. 
   “Travel To Egypt, From the Nineteenth Century too World War II: Thomas Cook, the Mechanization of Travel, and the Emergence of the American Era,” in Red Star Line and Cruise Tourism during the Interbellum, ed. Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly. Antwerp: Red Star Line Museum, 2016.
   
7. 
   “Discussion: Tourism and Empire” (with Shelley Baranowski, Christopher Endy, Stephanie Malia Hom, Gordon Pirie, Trevor Simmons, and Eric G.E. Zuelow) Journal of Tourism History, 7, nos. 1/2 (2015): 100-130.
   
8. 
   Contributor, Iran and the Arab World after the Nuclear Deal, ed. Payam Mohseni. Report for Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, August 2015, pp. 50-52.
   
9. 
   Review of Lara Deeb and Mona Harb, Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 57:4 (October 2015): 1087-9.
   

Coralie Hindawi

1. 
   “Iraq. Twenty Years in the Shadow of Chapter VII.” In The Land of the Blue Helmets. The United Nations and the Arab World, edited by Karim Makdisi and Vijay Prashad, California University Press, 2016.
   
2. 
   With Fateh Azzam, “The Arab Region,’ in The Oxford Handbook on the Responsibility to Protect, edited by Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne, Oxford University Press, 2016.
   
3. 
   With Karim Makdisi, “Creative Diplomacy amidst a Brutal Conflict: Analyzing the OPCW-UN Joint Mission for the Elimination of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Program,” IFI Report, 2016.
   

Hilal Khashan

1. 
   “Christianity’s Claim in the Birthplace of Islam,” Stratfor, The Global Affairs Column, April 23, 2016.
   
2. 
   “The Rise and Growth of Hezbollah and the Militarization of the Sunni-Shiite Divide in Lebanon,” The Middle East Journal, Jan. 26, 2016. Available at: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/rise-and-growth-hezbollah-and-militarization-sunni-shi’-divide-lebanon
   
3. 
   “Iran and the Arab World after the Nuclear Deal: Rivalry and Engagement in a New Era,” Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Scientific and International Affairs, August 2015, pp. 60-62.
   

Hiba Khodr

1. 
   “Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Enhancing the Sustainability of Primary Healthcare: The case of the state of Qatar.” Under Review.
   
2. 
   “Anti-Terrorism Policies and Politics: the Case of Lebanon”. In Eradicating Terrorism from the Middle East: Policy and Administrative Approaches, ed. Alexander R. Dawoody. Springler International Publishing, 2016.
   
3. 
   “The Interplay between Politics and Policy in Combatting Terrorism: The case of Lebanon.” Middle East Review of Public Administration. 1(2), 2016.
   

Karim Makdisi

1. 
   With R. Khouri and M. Waehlisch, eds., Interventions in Conflict: International Peacemaking in the Middle East. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
   
2. 
   With C. Hindawi. “Creative Diplomacy amidst a Brutal Conflict: Analyzing the OPCW-UN Joint Mission for the Elimination of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Program,” Beirut: Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, 2016.
   

Antonio-Martin Porras-Gomez

1. 
   “La gobernanza multinivel del gasto público europeo,” Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2015.
   
2. 
   “El contenido doctrinal implícito” (coauthor with A. Porras Nadales, et al. Chapter 5 (pp. 67-93) of La aportación de la doctrina en la jurisprudencia constitucional española, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2015.
   
3. 
   “The Cascade of Fear: Policy Implementation and Financial Management Reform in the European Commission.” Coauthor with R. Levy and M. Barzelay, Financial Accountability and Management, 31: 2 (May 2015): 150-70.
   
4. 
   “Summary: The multi-level governance of European public expenditure.” Journal of the European Court of Auditors, 7 (July-Aug 2015): 25-31.
   

Danyel Reiche

1. 
   Success and Failure of Nations at the Olympics. Forthcoming, Routledge, June 2016.
   
2. 
   With S. Pettigrew. “Hosting the Olympic Games: An Overstated Advantage in Sports History.” Published online by The International Journal of the History of Sport on February 01, 2016.
   
3. 
   “Why developing countries are just spectators in the “Gold War”: The case of Lebanon at the Olympic Games” Accepted for publication by Third World Quarterly on April 08, 2016.
   
4. 
   “Qatar in 2030.” The Arab World Geographer, nos. 1-2 2015, pp. 96-99.
   
5. 
   Review of German Sports, Doping, and Politics: A History of Performance Enhancement. In German Politics.
   

Tariq Tell

1. 
   “Social Origins of Mandatory Rule in Transjordan.” In Routledge handbook of the history of the Middle East mandates, ed. Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan. Routledge, 2015.
   
2. 
   “Early spring in Jordan: the Revolt of the Military Veterans.” Carnegie Middle East Center Regional Insight, November 2015.
   

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
The PSPA Department has gone a long way in developing its curriculum and teaching, and in doing so it has tremendously benefited from the enthusiasm of its young faculty. We continue to evaluate and upgrade our existing programs and integrate in them what we are learning through our full immersion in the Program Learning Outcome (PLO). This has been exceptionally benefiting our activities and enriching the content of our courses, as well as the process of disseminating knowledge to our students. The Department has maintained close levels of cooperation with the Issam Fares Institute, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, and also with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. This includes sponsoring joint activities and cross listing of courses. The Dept. aspires to further expand its cooperation with these centers and other University institutes and programs.