Bio

Gamal Gasim, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Political Science at Grand Valley State University, earned his PhD in political science from Texas Tech. Before Grand Valley, he taught at Texas Tech, University of Wisconsin-Madison during the summers of 2006 and 2007, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Beloit College during the summers of 2008 and 2009 respectively. His research interests include comparative politics, Middle East politics, Islamic civilization, Islamic political parties and Muslim Americans. He has contributed articles to Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Politics & Religion, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Political Science Education, the Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics and other journals. He also writes for Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Arabic, TRT Arabi, the Arab Daily News, Huffington Post, and Yemen Times.

Areas of Interest

Middle East Politics, comparative politics, Muslim Americans, and Islamic political parties.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Science , Texas Tech University, May 2010.

Master of Arts (MA) in Political Science, Kansas State University, August 2004.

Graduate Certificate in International Service, Kansas State University, August 2004.

Master of Arts (MA) Islamic Civilization, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), December 1999, Malaysia.

Publications

ARTICLES

Gamal Gasim (2023). Why Is Sudan’s Fourth Democratic Transition Doomed to Failure? Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, 7(1), 8-10.

Gamal Gasim. The Qatari Crisis and Al Jazeera's Coverage of the War in Yemen .Arab Media & Society (Issue 25, Winter/Spring 2018).

Patterson, Dennis. Gasim, Gamal, & Choi, J. (2015). The Political, Social, and Religious Attitudes of Muslim Americans. Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture, 1(1).

Gasim, Gamal, Jangsup Choi, and Dennis Patterson (2014). Explaining Muslim Americans' Public Opinions on Salient Issues. Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, 25(1), 13-26.

Gasim, Gamal, Tara Stevens, and Amira Zebidi (2012). Analytical Study of Self-Motivations Among Non-Political Science Major Students in Required Political Science Courses. Journal of Political Science Education. 8:107-119.

Choi, Jangsup, Gamal Gasim, and Dennis Patterson (2011). Issues, and Religious Commitment: Explaining Turnout Among Mosque-Attending Muslim Americans. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 343-64.

Patterson, Dennis, Gamal Gasim, and Jangsup Choi (2011). Identity, Attitudes, and the Voting Behavior of Mosque-Attending Muslim-Americans in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections Americans in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections. Politics and Religion, 4, 289-311.

Gasim, Gamal. (2011). Sudan's 2010 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. Electoral Studies, 30, 375-78.

Gasim, Gamal. (2010). Reflecting on Sudan's Higher Education Revolution under Al-Bashir's Regime. Comparative & International Higher Education, 2, 50-53.

 

REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOKS REVIEWS & ENCYCLPEDIA ENTRY

Gamal Gasim (2024). Intersections of Yemen’s Political Developments and Red Sea Security. In an edited volume titled “Security in the Red Sea: Contexts of International and Regional Conflict”. (pp. 295-426). London: Dimensions for Strategic Studies (DSS). London: UK.

Gasim, Gamal. 2014. Explaining Political Activism Before and During Yemeni Spring. In co- edited by Lina Khatib (Stanford University) and Ellen Lust (Yale University) (Ed.), Taking to the Streets: Activism, Arab Uprisings, and Democratization. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 109-35.

Gamal Gasim. Hadhramaut and Its Diaspora: Yemeni Politics, Identity and Migration ed. by Noel Brehony (review). The Middle East Journal, Volume 71, Number 4, Autumn 2017, pp. 688-689 (Review).

Gasim, Gamal. Yemen. (2014): The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics. Oxford University Press. pp. 561-564.

Gasim, Gamal. Review of Naber, Nadine. Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. (NY: New York University Press, 2012.) Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 47(2). pp.261-62.

Gamal Gasim (2014), Review of Gregory Johnsen. The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia. (NY: W.W. Norton & Company, INC, 2012.). Terrorism and Political Violence, 26:2. pp.392-394.

Gasim, Gamal. (2013). Review of Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11. (NY: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2009). Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 47 (1).pp.85-87.

​​​​​​​SELECTED TEACHING AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2019 Campus Teaching Award in Political Science, Award from American Political Science Association.

May 2019. Grand Valley Student Senate Award for Faculty Excellence.

2007 Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award from American Political Science Association/Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society.

2006/2007 Professing Excellence Teaching Award, Department of Housing & Residence Life, Texas Tech University.

2006/2007 TEACH Fellowship, Texas Tech University.

Honors & Scholarships

2002-2004 Fulbright Scholarship

Summer 2009 Summer Dissertation Research Award, Graduate School Texas Tech University

Fall 2004- Spring2009 Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University

Fall 2008 Oden Memorial Scholarship, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University

Fall 2007 James D. and Mary Hazelwood Memorial Graduate Fellowship, awarded through Texas Tech University Graduate School

Fall 2007 Kent Presson Memorial Scholarship, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University

Fall 2005 Oden Memorial Scholarship, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University

Websites

Media articles links:

Aljazeera English: https://www.aljazeera.com/author/gamal_gasim_201512591010241169

Aljazeera Arabic: https://www.aljazeera.net/author/د-جمال-قاسم

TRT Arabi: https://www.trtarabi.com/author/676147e042f55f84a2931476?page=1

Huffpost: https://www.huffpost.com/author/gamal-gasim