Attiya Ahmad is Georgetown University’s 2009-10 Center for International and Regional Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow. She recently completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Dr. Ahmad’s work brings together scholarship on Islamic studies, globalization, diaspora and migration studies, economic anthropology, and political economy.
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Religious & Secular Elite Cooperation: Democratization in Turkey & the Middle East
Fri, 11/9/2012 12:30 pm to 2:00 pmThe Middle East Institute’s Center for Turkish Studies and the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University are proud to present a discussion with Professor Murat Somer of Koc University in Istanbul. Somer will examine how countries with semi-democratic or authoritarian centers, such as Turkey or the Arab Spring polities, must rely on cooperation between religious and secular actors to achieve greater democratization.
Religious & Secular Elite Cooperation: Democratization in Turkey & the Middle East
Fri, 11/9/2012 12:30 pm to 2:00 pmThe Middle East Institute’s Center for Turkish Studies and the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University are proud to present a discussion with Professor Murat Somer of Koc University in Istanbul. Somer will examine how countries with semi-democratic or authoritarian centers, such as Turkey or the Arab Spring polities, must rely on cooperation between religious and secular actors to achieve greater democratization.
Religious & Secular Elite Cooperation: Democratization in Turkey & the Middle East
Fri, 11/9/2012 12:30 pm to 2:00 pmThe Middle East Institute’s Center for Turkish Studies and the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University are proud to present a discussion with Professor Murat Somer of Koc University in Istanbul. Somer will examine how countries with semi-democratic or authoritarian centers, such as Turkey or the Arab Spring polities, must rely on cooperation between religious and secular actors to achieve greater democratization.
Religious & Secular Elite Cooperation: Democratization in Turkey & the Middle East
Fri, 11/9/2012 12:30 pm to 2:00 pmThe Middle East Institute’s Center for Turkish Studies and the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University are proud to present a discussion with Professor Murat Somer of Koc University in Istanbul. Somer will examine how countries with semi-democratic or authoritarian centers, such as Turkey or the Arab Spring polities, must rely on cooperation between religious and secular actors to achieve greater democratization.
Religious & Secular Elite Cooperation: Democratization in Turkey & the Middle East
Saudi Arabia: The Rising Next Generation
The terse announcement on Monday that Prince Muhammad bin Nayef has been promoted to minister of interior in Saudi Arabia accelerates the long-awaited rise of a new generation of leaders to positions of real power in the Kingdom. At the age of 58, Muhammad succeeds his 72-year-old uncle, Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz, a son of the founding king of modern Saudi Arabia, who had become minister only in June.
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women's Rights
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women’s RightsSerpil SancarisNovember, 5, 2012, Podcast 38
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women's Rights
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women’s RightsSerpil SancarisNovember, 5, 2012, Podcast 38
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women's Rights
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women’s RightsSerpil SancarisNovember, 5, 2012, Podcast 38
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women's Rights
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women’s RightsSerpil SancarisNovember, 5, 2012, Podcast 38
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women's Rights
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women’s RightsSerpil SancarisNovember, 5, 2012, Podcast 38
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women's Rights
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women’s RightsSerpil SancarisNovember, 5, 2012, Podcast 38
A New Gender Perspective in Turkey: Secularism, Islam and Women's Rights
Syrian Diaspora: Cultivating a New Public Space and Consciousness
Originally posted August 2011