The organizers of the upcoming annual conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, “The Arab Spring: Getting It Right,” are currently seeking paper proposals. The conference will be held on May 3 and proposals are due by March 15:
The Middle East is not the only thing being rocked by the “Arab Spring.” So are preconceptions about Arab and Muslim-majority countries in general. For years, political analysts accounted for the lack of representative governance in many Arab and Muslim countries with alleged incompatibilities between Islam and democracy, and affinities between Arabs and authoritarianism. Time and events are proving them wrong.
The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) will hold its 13th annual conference on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at the Reagan International Trade Center in Washington DC, and invites proposals for papers.
For full details, see the call for papers from the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Phillip Quintero is an Associate with the Communications and Editorial departments at the SSRC. He is a graduate of The New School for Social Research with a Master's degree in politics, and maintains an interest in social and political theory and philosophy. When not at the SSRC, he teaches cycling with Bike New York, and is an adjunct faculty member at Parsons School of Design.
