Abdeslam E.M. Maghraoui
Director, Muslim World Initiative
North Africa | Middle East | Muslim Communities in Europe | Islam | Culture and Politics | Human Rights | Democratization
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Abdeslam Maghraoui joined USIP as the director for the Muslim World Initiative, part of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, in 2004. His research focuses on political power, authority, and legitimacy in contemporary Muslim societies.
Prior to joining the Institute, Maghraoui was visiting lecturer and resident scholar at Princeton University’s Department of Politics and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.
Previously, he was director of Al-Madina, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting accountable governance in the Arab world. As director of Al-Madina, Maghraoui developed research and managed programs on building the capacity of civil society associations in North Africa.
He holds a Ph.D. in comparative politics from Princeton University.
Publications:
- American Foreign Policy and Islamic Renewal
Special Report, June 2006
- What Do Islamists Really Want?
USIPeace Briefing, May 2006
- Liberalism without Democracy: Lessons from Egypt's Experiment, 1922-1936 (Duke University Press, 2006).
- "Negotiating Political Identity: Clues from Psychoanalytic Theory," Journal of Mediterranean Studies (Vol. 14, No. 1 &2, 2004).
- "Ambiguities of Sovereignty: Morocco, The Hague, and the Western Sahara Dispute," Mediterranean Politics (Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 2003).
- "Depoliticization in Morocco," Journal of Democracy (Volume 13, Number 4, October, 2002).
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