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Overview

Bessma Momani is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and conducts research primarily within the field of Social Sciences. Their subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Communication, Political Science and International Relations, and Safety Research. The main topics covered in their work are Social Media and Politics, Youth Development and Social Support, Service-Learning and Community Engagement, Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts, Gender, Security, and Conflict, Gender Roles and Identity Studies, and Gender Politics and Representation.

The researcher has contributed to multiple academic journals with recent papers including:

  • Gender Mainstreaming in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence: Lessons on the Implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+), 2020, Armed Forces & Society
  • Canada's Right-Wing Extremists: Mapping their Ties, Location, and Ideas, 2021, Journal of Hate Studies
  • Political participation among Canadian Arab youth, 2022, Journal of Youth Studies
  • Digital Archiving of Diasporic Cultural Productions and Transnational Citizenship of Arabs in the West, 2021, Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies
  • Local Community Care-based Activism and Civic Engagement Among Canadian Arab Youth, 2023, The Canadian Journal of Sociology

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as Melissa Finn, Rachael Johnstone, Thomas Juneau, Eid Mohamed, and Jean-François Bélanger. These partnerships align with their interdisciplinary interests spanning social and political sciences as well as communication studies.

Momani's work is also published in established venues including:

  • Armed Forces & Society
  • Journal of Hate Studies
  • Journal of Youth Studies
  • Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies
  • The Canadian Journal of Sociology

Additionally, their scholarly contributions extend to books published by Bloomsbury Publishing plc and University of Toronto Press. Notable book titles include Cultural Production and Social Movements after the Arab Spring (2021) and Middle Power in the Middle East (2022).

Best Publications

  • American politicization of the International Monetary Fund

    Bessma Momani

  • Recruiting and diversifying IMF technocrats

    Bessma Momani

  • Qatar and Expanded Contours of Small State Diplomacy

    Andrew F. Cooper;Bessma Momani

  • IMF staff: Missing link in fund reform proposals

    Bessma Momani

  • Limits on streamlining Fund conditionality: the International Monetary Fund's organizational culture

    Bessma Momani

  • Gulf Cooperation Council Oil Exporters and the Future of the Dollar

    Bessma Momani

  • Shaping the Middle East in the Midst of the Arab Uprisings: Turkish and Saudi foreign policy strategies

    Crystal A Ennis;Bessma Momani

  • The World Bank as Knowledge Bank: Analyzing the Limits of a Legitimate Global Knowledge Actor

    Teresa Kramarz;Bessma Momani

  • Between caution and controversy: lessons from the Gulf Arab states as (re-)emerging donors

    Bessma Momani;Crystal A Ennis

  • Assessing the Utility of, and Measuring Learning from, Canada's IMF Article IV Consultations

    Bessma Momani

  • (Re)branding Amman: A ‘lived’ city's values, image and identity

    Luna Khirfan;Bessma Momani

  • Negotiating out of Argentina's financial crisis: Segmenting the international creditors

    Andrew F. Cooper;Bessma Momani

  • Management consultants and the United States' public sector

    Bessma Momani

  • Pursuing Geopolitical Stability through Interregional Trade: the EU's Motives for Negotiating with the Gulf Cooperation Council

    Agata Antkiewicz;Bessma Momani

  • Explaining the use of planning consultants in Ontario cities

    Bessma Momani;Bessma Momani;Luna Khirfan

  • The Arab Spring Can Bring a Demographic Dividend: That is Good for Business and Investors

    Bessma Momani

  • The challenge of re-branding progressive countries in the Gulf and Middle East: Opportunities through new networked engagements versus constraints of embedded negative images

    Andrew F Cooper;Bessma Momani

  • A Middle East Free Trade Area: Economic Interdependence and Peace Considered

    Bessma Momani

  • Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi

    Luna Khirfan;Bessma Momani;Zahra Jaffer

  • Gender Mainstreaming in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence: Lessons on the Implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+):

    Rachael Johnstone;Bessma Momani

  • International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance@@@The G8, the United Nations, and Conflict Prevention

    Bessma Momani;Margaret P. Karns;Karen A. Mingst;John J. Kirton

  • Slipping into Obscurity? Crisis and Reform at the IMF

    Bessma Momani;Eric Helleiner

  • Japan’s Rescue of the IMF

    Carin L. Holroyd;Bessma Momani

  • IMF-Egyptian Debt Negotiations

    Bessma Momani

  • Arab Dawn: Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring

    Bessma Momani

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew F. Cooper
Andrew F. Cooper University of Waterloo
Eric Helleiner
Eric Helleiner University of Waterloo
Pierre L. Siklos
Pierre L. Siklos Wilfrid Laurier University
John Whalley
John Whalley University of Western Ontario
Jennifer Clapp
Jennifer Clapp University of Waterloo

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