She has produced 8 authored and co-authored books, published 53 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and made over 90 presentations in both academic and policy-oriented settings. She has also been awarded numerous research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the International Development Research Council (IDRC), and other funding agencies to support this work.
As well as resonating within academia, her insights on the IMF have also been taken up within the policy community: she has been cited at IMF Executive Board meetings, in the Independent Evaluation Office’s publications, and in studies conducted by IMF staff. In 2013, when the IMF decided to update and revise its staff guidelines for interacting with civil society organizations (the IMF has 2500 staff who deal regularly with labour organizations, parliamentarians, and NGOs), it was Dr. Momani they sought out as an expert consultant and advisor.
Professor Momani’s newest books, Arab Boom: The Future Hope of Arab Youth (forthcoming in 2015, University of Toronto Press) and Tahrir Square and Beyond: Critical Perspectives on Politics, Law and Security (forthcoming in 2015, University of Edinburgh Press), speak directly to the question of how, amid the turbulence of recent events and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, might we better understand the challenges faced by Arab youth (both in the Middle East and in its diaspora) and more effectively equip these young people to find their place in the world.
In addition to her appointment in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Prof. Momani is a Senior Fellow at Waterloo’s Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). She has also been a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC (2011-2014), a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University’s Mortara Researcher Center (2012-2013) and a Visiting Scholar at the Amman Amman Institute (2009-2010).
A regular contributor to CBC radio, Prof. Momani is also a Middle East analyst on CTV News, CBC’s The National, Al-Jazeera English, Bloomberg TV, Business News Network (BNN), and TVO’s the Agenda. She has written over 30 editorials for the New York Times, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen among others. She blogs for the Centre for CIGI as well as writing regularly for the Open Canada Blog at the Canadian International Council, maintains a column on Huffington Post, and communicates daily with her nearly 2,000 followers on Twitter. Thousands of Canadians (and others in the world) have come to trust and rely on her astute commentary to help them make sense of events taking place in our world today.
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