Attend the Research-In-Progress Brown Bag Presentation at APSA with Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

Research-in-Progress Brown Bag Speaker Series
Please join us for a series of research discussions happening this fall at APSA! The speaker series is hosted by the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs and will take place at APSA headquarters in Washington, DC.

What: APSA BrownBag featuring Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, Paris Institute of Political Studies
When: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Where: 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036.
Directions: Directions from the Q Street Dupont Circle Metro exit available here.

The United States and Political Islam: Dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab Revolutions

Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, PhD, Paris Institute of Political Studies

ABSTRACT: This presentation will deal with the US policy towards the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. How has the main world State power been dealing with the principal Islamist movement, especially in the aftermath of the Arab upheavals? What is the intellectual approach to political Islam, from the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood to the most recent period, specifically among the Obama Administration over the Arab Spring? Has the anti-US potential has been tamed or not? What is the role of the Cold War context in how the Muslim Brotherhood has been used (or not) to fight Communism?

In the light of the discourses held by the US leaders and diplomats, Adraoui will highlight the difficulty to address the Muslim Brotherhood. Adraoui will more specifically shed light on the way the US policy of engagement of the Islamist movement has been conducted by using the US State Department archives over the last century.

The theoretical framework used will be constructivism as Adraoui will principally focus on the importance of ideas and identities in the construction of the US diplomacy towards the main Islamist movement in the Arab world.

BIO: Adraoui is a political scientist and historian whose research interests focus mainly on international relations, specifically relations between Western countries and Islamist movements. He holds a PhD from Sciences Po Paris after defending his thesis in 2011 on contemporary Salafism. Adraoui was a two-year Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2013-2015). From 2015 to 2017, he was a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.

Adraoui is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University working on US policy towards the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

What: APSA BrownBag featuring Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, Paris Institute of Political Studies
When: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Where: 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036.
Directions: Directions from the Q Street Dupont Circle Metro exit available here.

Street parking is limited, but there are lots available nearby.