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Research Fellow, Dubai School of Government, Visiting Scholar, Dubai Initiative
E-mail: Manal.Jamal@dsg.ae
In 2006, Dr. Manal A. Jamal received her Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University, specializing in the comparative politics of developing areas. She also holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from the University of California, Davis, and San Francisco State University, respectively. Her research interests include democratization, war-to-peace transitions, and the politics of the Middle East.
Dr. Jamal’s doctoral dissertation, “After the ‘Peace Processes:’ Foreign Donor Assistance and the Political Economy of Marginalization in Palestine and El Salvador,” was a co-winner of the best fieldwork award of the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association in 2006. Drawing from over 130 interviews she conducted in the Palestinian territories and El Salvador, she demonstrated how political settlements and the resultant political contexts ultimately shape democracy promotion efforts.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, she was a Sultan Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Jamal has taught at McGill University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Mills College, and she previously worked as a journalist and researcher in the Palestinian territories.
In the fall of 2008, she will begin a tenure-track position at James Madison University.
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