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51. Publications & Writing
An Artist as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran? by Shiva Balaghi
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52. Publications & Writing
An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. 1999 IDRF Fellow Lara Deeb’s eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community…
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53. Publications & Writing
An Overview of Data Contained in the 2005/06 Ghana Living Standards Survey (Glss 5) on Migration and Remittances
This short, descriptive paper provides an overview of the main findings of the migration and remittances data contained in the nationally-representative, 2005/06 Ghana GLSS 5 Survey (sub-sample). It finds that households receiving internal remittances (from Ghana) and internation…
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54. Publications & Writing
An inconvenient dataset: bias and inappropriate inference with the multilevel model
Authored by DPDF 2010 Discrimination Studies co-director, Samuel R. Lucas The multilevel model has become a staple of social research. I textually and formally explicate sample design features that, I contend, are required for unbiased estimation of macro-level multilevel model p…
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55. Publications & Writing
Arab Uprisings: New Opportunies for Political Science
The uprisings that swept the Arab world following the fall of Tunisia’s President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 represented a stunning moment in the region’s political history. For political scientists specializing in the region, the events of the last year and a ha…
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56. Publications & Writing
Arab Winter
Includes comments by DPDF 2008 Muslim Modernities Research Director, Charles Kurzman. Five experts, Charles Kurzman, Dalia F. Fahmy, Justin Gengler, Ryan Calder, and Sarah Leah Whitson comment on whether or not the promise of an Arab Spring of democracy and freedom has withered.
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57. Publications & Writing
Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism
…1998 IDRF Fellow Brian McLaren’s book is about the construction of tourist experience in colonial Libya through representations produced by and for modern Italian society. Because it is considered as a complex cultural formation, architecture has a role in the construction of t…
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58. Publications & Writing
Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present
Sponsored by the SSRC/ACLS Joint Committee on the Soviet Union and Successor States and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Buy from Amazon.
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59. Publications & Writing
Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development?
This paper uses panel data on international remittances covering up to 113 countries over the period 1970 to 1998 to analyze the impact of remittances on economic development. Using instrumental variables and a variety of fixed-effects models the authors find that international…
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60. Publications & Writing
Are Remittances Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines
The publisher, Oxford Journals, did not grant permission to reproduce this article for public access. To buy this article please visit http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/219?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=wber&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sorts…
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