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Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Kontakt

Center for Strategic Studies
University of Jordan
P.O. Box 13146
Amman 11942
Jordan
Tel.: +962 6 530 0113
Fax: +962 6 535 5515
Email: s.ababnehspam prevention@css-jordan.org

Akademischer Werdegang

2004-2009 University of Oxford, DPhil in Politics and International Relations

Thesis Title: Islamic Political Parties as a Means to Women’s Empowerment? The Case of Hamas and the Islamic Action Front

2002-2003 University of Wales, Aberystwyth, MSc Econ in International Politics and International Relations Theory

Thesis Title: Hybridity, A Form of Resistance or Assimilation?

1998-2002 Earlham College, BSc in Politics and Economics

Professional Experience

September 2010-present: Researcher, Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

2009-2010: Consultant and Researcher, British Empire and Common Wealth Museum, Bristol, UK

2009-2010: Retained Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

2007-2010: Tutor in Middle Eastern Politics, St. Anne's College, Pembroke College, Mansfield College, St. Hilda's College, St. Cathrine's College, Oriel College, University of Oxford.

August 2007 Organizer and Facilitator for Building Bridges Danish-Jordanian Cultural exchange program, Amman, Jordan

July 2006 Facilitator at IOU Respect (Hostelling International) Cultural Exchange Program, New York, USA

Jan-Dec 2005 Arabic Tutor at Lingua Franca, Oxford, UK

Summer 2005 Research Assistant for Dr. Patricia Owen, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK

Spring 2005 Facilitator at Seeds of Peace Beyond Borders Jordan Summit, Amman, Jordan

Summer 2004 Conflict Resolution Facilitator at Seeds of Peace International Camp, Maine, USA

2003-2004 Research Assistant at the Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

2002-2004 Research Assistant at the International Politics Department (Dr. Jaroen Gunning)

Publications

Ababneh, S (2008) "Foucault Araciligiyla Direnisi Teorilestirmek ve Toplumsal Cinsiyeti Kavramsallastirmak: Islamci Politik Partilerde Kadin Aktivistlerin Durumu" (Theorizing Resistance and Conceptualizing Gender through Foucault: the Situation of Women Activists in Islamic Political Parties), in Toplumsal Hareketler: Tarih, Teori ve Deneyim (Social Movements: History, Theory and Experience) ed. Dogan Cetinkaya (iletisim yayinlari, Istanbul), 219-247.

Ababneh, S (2009), “Islamic Political Activism as a Means of Women's Empowerment? The Case of the Female IAF Activists”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Special Issue on Gender: Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, vol.9, Issue1 (Wiley-Blackwell)

Ababneh, S (2011), “Book Review: Sylva Frisk, Submitting to God, Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, vol. 28, Winter 2011, Number 1 (Association of American Muslim Social Scientists of North America & International Institute of Islamic Thought)

Ababneh, S (Forthcoming), "Personal Status Law in Jordan", Family Law and Gender in the Modern Middle East and North Africa, eds. Wing, A & Kassim, H (Cambridge University Press)

Selected Conference Participation

May 2004 University of Essex Political Theory Conference

Paper: Hybridity, A Form of Resistance or Assimilati

May 2004 University of Essex Political Theory Conference

Paper: Hybridity, A Form of Resistance or Assimilati

December 2005 British International Studies Association (BISA)

Paper: Changing Power Structures: The Possibilities and Limits of Hybrid Resistance

March 2006 International Studies Association (ISA)

Paper: Hybridity, Negotiation and Resistance: The Case of Hamas

December 2006 BISA

Paper: Resisting Hegemonic Discourses: A War of Words, Muslim Feminists and the Quest for Gender Equality

March 2008, CCP Group

Paper: Wein A Ramallah? The Unholy Road to Expertise, Issues in Research and Methodology

March 2008, ISA

Paper: Women in the Islamic Action Front

August 2008 British International Studies Association (BRISMES) Postgraduate Conference

Paper: Islamic Political Parties as a Means of Empowerment: The Case of the Islamic Action Front

November 2008 Women and Islamic Resistance (One Day conference)

Paper: Women inside Hamas: Politics of Everyday Resistance

December 2008, Guest Speaker at the Department of Politics and IR Lecture Series, University of Reading

Paper: Islamic Political Parties as a Means of Empowerment: The Case of the Islamic Action Front

June 2010, Guest Speaker at CCP Working Group

Paper: Revaluating Feminist Understandings of Islamists

July 2010, WOCMES (World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies)

Paper: The Structural Effects of Islamic Political Activism in Occupied Palestine

February 2011, Guest Speaker, CULP, Department of Politics Georgetown University, Doha

Paper: Decolonizing Empowerment

November 2011 AAR (American Academy of Religion)

Paper: Female Islamists Under Feminist Scrutiny: The Structural Effects of Islamic Political Activism in Occupied Palestine

January 2012, Guest Speaker, GSF (Gender and Social Fund) Women's Retreat

Paper: A History of the Jordanian Women's Movement

February 2012 Guest Speaker at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. Workshop “Turkey’s image in and its policy towards the MENA region”. Paper: Turkey's Middle East Policy in the Perception of its Neighbourhood.

Membership

International Studies Association (ISA)

British International Studies Association Gendering International Politics Working Group