Panel | The State of the Game: Women's Basketball in the Middle East | November, 11, 2024

Speakers:
Assile Toufaily is a third-year PhD student working on a thesis titled “The Socialization of Women’s Football: A Comparative Study between Lebanon and France.” Her research provides an innovative analysis of the sociocultural influences on the careers of female football players in two distinct settings-one with a professional sports infrastructure and the other where the sport remains underdeveloped.
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport and sports diplomacy expert specializing in Franco-American relations and basketball. Author of “Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA” (Bloomsbury, 2023) and “The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010”, (Lexington Books, 2013), her work has appeared with TIME, CNN International, The Athletic, and The New Yorker. Director of FranceAndUS and former co-director of the “Basketball Diplomacy in Africa” project (SOAS University of London), she is a veteran of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian.
Moderator: Danyel Reiche, Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) and a Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University Qatar
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