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Welcome to ASMEA
ASMEA is a new academic society dedicated to promoting the highest standards of research and teaching in Middle Eastern and African studies, and related fields. It is a response to the mounting interest in these increasingly inter-related fields, and the absence of any single group addressing them in a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary fashion.
ASMEA is, first and foremost, a community of scholars concerned to protect academic freedom and promote the search for truth to reach new heights in inquiry. The Association will advance the discourse in these fields by offering its members new opportunities to publish and present ideas to the academic community and beyond.
ASMEA will offer its assistance to established and new scholars, including un-tenured faculty, graduate students, and those in related fields to expand the body of scholars and knowledge.
Professor Bernard Lewis ▪ Professor Fouad Ajami
ASMEA Publications
Selected Papers from ASMEA's 2008 Conference Now Available as a Collected Volume
Political Islam from Muhammed to Ahmadinejad, Joseph M. Skelly, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2009), 276p.
ASMEA is proud to announce that selections from our inaugural conference are now available in a new release from Praeger Security International (an imprint of ABC-CLIO) entitled Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions. Edited by ASMEA’s Treasurer, Joseph Morrison Skelly, this collected volume features a Foreword by ASMEA’s Chairman, Bernard Lewis, and brings together a team of experts to create a compelling, scholarly investigation of the interrelationship of Islam and politics. Learn More
ASMEA Book Reviews
ASMEA Review of Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies
Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies, Joel D. Barkan, ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), 276p.
Reviewed by Harvey Glickman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Haverford College.
Observers of African politics recognize that democratization in a number of African states is indeed occurring—characterized by several reasonably free and competitive elections, peaceful transfers of power, an environment of free speech, an expanding civil society. Continue To Read
Welcome to ASMEA
ASMEA is a new academic society dedicated to promoting the highest standards of research and teaching in Middle Eastern and African studies, and related fields. It is a response to the mounting interest in these increasingly inter-related fields, and the absence of any single group addressing them in a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary fashion.
ASMEA is, first and foremost, a community of scholars concerned to protect academic freedom and promote the search for truth to reach new heights in inquiry. The Association will advance the discourse in these fields by offering its members new opportunities to publish and present ideas to the academic community and beyond.
ASMEA will offer its assistance to established and new scholars, including un-tenured faculty, graduate students, and those in related fields to expand the body of scholars and knowledge.
Professor Bernard Lewis ▪ Professor Fouad Ajami
ASMEA Publications
Selected Papers from ASMEA's 2008 Conference Now Available as a Collected Volume
Political Islam from Muhammed to Ahmadinejad, Joseph M. Skelly, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2009), 276p.
ASMEA is proud to announce that selections from our inaugural conference are now available in a new release from Praeger Security International (an imprint of ABC-CLIO) entitled Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions. Edited by ASMEA’s Treasurer, Joseph Morrison Skelly, this collected volume features a Foreword by ASMEA’s Chairman, Bernard Lewis, and brings together a team of experts to create a compelling, scholarly investigation of the interrelationship of Islam and politics. Learn More
ASMEA Book Reviews
ASMEA Review of Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies
Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies, Joel D. Barkan, ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), 276p.
Reviewed by Harvey Glickman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Haverford College.
Observers of African politics recognize that democratization in a number of African states is indeed occurring—characterized by several reasonably free and competitive elections, peaceful transfers of power, an environment of free speech, an expanding civil society. Continue To Read
Welcome to ASMEA
ASMEA is a new academic society dedicated to promoting the highest standards of research and teaching in Middle Eastern and African studies, and related fields. It is a response to the mounting interest in these increasingly inter-related fields, and the absence of any single group addressing them in a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary fashion.
ASMEA is, first and foremost, a community of scholars concerned to protect academic freedom and promote the search for truth to reach new heights in inquiry. The Association will advance the discourse in these fields by offering its members new opportunities to publish and present ideas to the academic community and beyond.
ASMEA will offer its assistance to established and new scholars, including un-tenured faculty, graduate students, and those in related fields to expand the body of scholars and knowledge.
Professor Bernard Lewis ▪ Professor Fouad Ajami
ASMEA Publications
Selected Papers from ASMEA's 2008 Conference Now Available as a Collected Volume
Political Islam from Muhammed to Ahmadinejad, Joseph M. Skelly, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2009), 276p.
ASMEA is proud to announce that selections from our inaugural conference are now available in a new release from Praeger Security International (an imprint of ABC-CLIO) entitled Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions. Edited by ASMEA’s Treasurer, Joseph Morrison Skelly, this collected volume features a Foreword by ASMEA’s Chairman, Bernard Lewis, and brings together a team of experts to create a compelling, scholarly investigation of the interrelationship of Islam and politics. Learn More
Association News
ASMEA Announces Release of New Collected Volume
ASMEA Hosts Successful Second Annual Conference
The Middle East and Africa: Historic Connections and Strategic Bridges, ASMEA's second annual conference, was held October 22-24, 2009 at the Key Bridge Marriott in Washington, D.C. and
featured academic paper presentations and special lectures that demonstrated the inter-relationships between the two regions over time with special emphasis on the historical, political, economic, religious, security and cultural links between them.
See a full listing of papers presented (along with their summaries)
In the News
Another Step Forward for Iraq (03/02/2010) Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal Forgive Vice President Joe Biden the audacity of claiming last month on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Iraq is destined to be "one of the great achievements of this administration." The larger point he made—that a representative government is taking hold in Baghdad—is on the mark.
Ghana's Dubious New Partner (02/26/2010) J. Peter Pham, Forbes Over the last decade the United States has successfully transformed its foreign aid efforts. Dollars aren't simply being delivered to corrupt regimes, helping keep them in power with nothing expected in return. Instead aid money is increasingly tied to serious reforms the countries must embrace to enhance the rule of law, enforce contracts, attract foreign capital and stamp out corruption.
Shi'a in Senegal: Iran's Growing Reach into Africa(02/18/2010) J. Peter Pham, World Defense Review As the Iranian regime celebrated its 31st birthday last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first ordered and then boasted that the nuclear plant at Natanz had successfully enriched uranium to 19.75 percent purity, making, he claimed, Iran "a nuclear state."
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