Dr. Anne Marie Baylouny

Presentations and Public Speaking

"Keepin' it Real: Teaching the Middle East with Role-plays," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, San Jose, CA, 22 February 2008.

“Lebanon: Current Crisis, Old Problems,” World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area, 25 September 2007.

Presentations on Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, and informal settlements in the Middle East. Ungoverned Spaces and the Empowerment of Non-state Actors Conference, Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, VA, 28-29 August 2007.

“Ungoverned Spaces in the Middle East: Non-state actors and new institutions,” at the Ungoverned Spaces Conference, Naval Postgraduate School, 2 August 2007.

“Al-Manar and Alhurra: Competing Satellite Stations and Ideologies,” Working paper for the Marshall Center, project on Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism. Garmisch, Germany, 20 September 2005

“Islamist Motivations, Civil Society Islamist Organizations, and Islamic Feminism,” World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco, 24 May 2005

“Explaining Islamist Violence: A Research Agenda,” presentation to the conference “Terrorism and Islamic Extremism in the Middle East: Perspectives and Possibilities,” at the Center for Naval Analysis, Alexandria, VA, 22 February 2005

Presentations on Tunisia, Morocco, and Jordan for the State Partnership for Peace program, 2004-5

“Oslo and Militarized Islam: Implementing Disaster In Palestine,” paper presented to Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, November 2004

“Reinventing Family: Structural Adjustment and the Rise of Kinship Associations in Jordan,” paper presented to American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2004

“Kinship Associations as Welfare NGOs in Liberalizing Jordan,” paper presented at Middle East Studies Conference, Washington, DC. November 2002

“Structural Adjustment and the Rise of Formal Family Associations in Jordan,” poster presented at the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA. August 2002

“Formalizing the Family: The Institutionalization of Kinship in Jordan,” CERMOC, Amman, Jordan. April 2000

“State Revenue and the Politics of Economic Liberalization in Syria and Iraq,” Middle East Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA. August 1997

"Obstacles to the entry of Arab American women in the political process," National Organization of Arab-American Women's Annual Conference, New York, NY. Fall 1993

Spokesperson on human rights; interviewed in national and international media. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Washington, DC. 1993-1995

Media and news interviews on current Middle East politics

Numerous invited presentations to military and government personnel on the Middle East and political Islam