Intrigued by the divergent outcomes of the Arab Spring protests in the various countries, and having conducted comparative research before, I invited Shamiran Mako, then a visiting scholar at Northeastern University, to join me on a project that would explore f..
Shamiran Mako and Valentine M. Moghadam
Shamiran Mako is an assistant professor of international relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Her research and teaching focus on the comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East with a substantive emphasis on foreign intervention, ethnic conflict, political violence in divided societies, and institutions and statebuilding. She is the author of After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, with Valentine Moghadam (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and co-editor of State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship, and Democratisation, with Benjamin Isakhan and Fadi Dawood (I.B. Tauris 2017). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, International Politics, the Journal of Minority and Group Rights, and Lawfare, among others. She is currently completing a book project on the institutions and ethnic conflict in Iraq.
Valentine M. Moghadam, professor of sociology and international affairs at Northeastern University, Boston, was born in Tehran, Iran, and received her higher education in Canada and the United States. In addition to her academic career, Professor Moghadam has been Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development at the UNU’s WIDER Institute (Helsinki, 1990-1995) and a section chief on gender equality and development in UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector (Paris, 2004-2006). Her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and feminist networks, economic citizenship, and gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In Fall 2021 she was the John W. Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, US Library of Congress, researching varieties of feminism in MENA. Among her many publications, Professor Moghadam is author of Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005), and Globalization and Social Movements: The Populist Challenge and Democratic Alternatives (2020).