Mounah Abdel-Samad
Director
Mounah Abdel Samad is Associate Professor of Public Administration at San Diego
State University. Dr. Abdel-Samad received his B.A. and M.A. in Public Administration
with a focus on human resources management from the American University of Beirut,
Lebanon. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the Rockefeller
College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany in May 2007. Dr. Abdel-Samad
is interested in homelessness as an area of research and has been incorporating this
topic into his teaching since 2015. His students have conducted field work in downtown
San Diego several times where they collected data about homeless individuals as well
as service providers. In addition, he specializes in legislative institutions and
legislators’ behavior in the Middle East and North Africa. He has also published several
articles on legislative behavior and civil society institutions’ legislative advocacy
efforts, and an article analyzing natural resource policies in Turkey, Iraq and Syria,
and he is conducting research on water policies in the United States and the Arab
world. In addition, he has been awarded a grant from START to study the impact of
inclusion/exclusion in policy making on the use of violence in North Africa.