Keeping Faith: Amaney Jamal – The Daily Princetonian

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Keeping Faith: Amaney Jamal – The Daily Princetonian.

The following is the first installment of “Keeping Faith,” a six-part series of conversations between politics professor Robert George and University professors of various faiths. 

Amaney Jamal is a politics professor and practicing Muslim whose work focuses on Middle Eastern politics, democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Arab world.

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