Non-Resident Scholar, Middle East
University of Maryland-College Park
Mansoor Moaddel Vitae
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Dr. Moaddel is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, and Research Professor, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism, University of Maryland, College Park.  He  studies culture, ideology, political conflict, revolution and social change.

Dr. Moaddel studies culture, ideology, political conflict, revolution and social change. His work focuses on the causes and consequences of values and attitudes of the people from the Middle East and North Africa. He has carried out values surveys in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey. His previous research project analyzed the determinants of ideological production in the Islamic world, in which he studied the rise of Islamic modernism in Egypt, India, and Iran in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; liberal nationalism in Egypt, anti-clerical secularism in Iran, liberal Arabism and Pan-Arab nationalism in Syria and Iraq in the first half of twentieth century; and Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria in the second half of the twentieth century. His fields of research and teaching interests are values survey, sociology of ideology, sociology of religion, political conflict and revolution, terrorism and political violence, and Islam and the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently involved in a panel study of changes in values and political engagement in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey. For more information, see www.mevs.org.