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Afghan Women Leaders Speak
Mills, Margaret; Kitch, Sally ( 2005-11-17 )The conference, entitled “Afghan Women Leaders Speak: Conflict Mitigation and Social Reconstruction,” brings together a substantial representation of Afghan women leaders with U.S.-based scholars and students who share ... -
Afghanistan: The Choices
Andrle, Fred; Herrmann, Richard; Mansoor, Peter; Mueller, John; Payind, Alam ( 2009-11-09 )Should we alter our strategy, stay the course, bring our troops home, increase their number? Afghanistan: The Choices is an interdisciplinary discussion of the way forward for the United States in Afghanistan, with a panel ... -
American Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, and the U.S. Presidential Election
Sylvan, Don ( 2012-10-24 )This interactive session will begin with some empirically based observations about internal Israeli politics, as well as a few about internal Palestinian politics. The majority of the talk will concentrate on preference ... -
America's Wars: The Way Forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq
Andrle, Fred; Herrmann, Richard; Kay, Sean; Mansoor, Peter; Mueller, John; Payind, Alam ( 2010-05-10 )The Mershon and Humanities Institute faculty panel, "America's Wars: The Way Forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq" will provide an in depth look at the issues surrounding America's increased military commitment in ... -
Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: A Brief History
Makdisi, Ussama ( 2008-04-16 )Ussama Makdisi is an Associate Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. -
The Arab Awakening: One Year On
Muasher, Marwan ( 2012-04-21 )Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment. He served as foreign minister (2002–04) and deputy prime minister (2004–05) of Jordan, and his career has spanned the areas of diplomacy, development, ... -
The Arab Spring: Developments in North Africa and the Middle East
Stacher, Joshua; Webber, Sabra; Aly, Hassan; Payind, Alam; Brustein, William; Jenkins, Craig ( 2011-11-03 )The Arab Spring: Developments in North Africa and the Middle East will bring perspectives from the field that give new meaning to events reported in the news. The focus will be on the supporters of the protests and revolutions ... -
Can Ayatollah Sistani's Alternative to Khomeinism Survive?
Cole, Juan ( 2008-10-08 )Juan R.I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. For three decades, Cole has sought to put the ... -
Central Eurasian Studies Society 2011 Annual Meeting
Levi, Scott; Liu, Morgan ( 2011-09-15 )Annual Meeting of the Central Eurasian Studies Society is an event put on by the preeminent scholarly organization for Central Asian studies. CESS is a private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based interdisciplinary ... -
Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
Mogahed, Dalia; Fersh, Robert; Gutlove, Paula; Dine, Thomas ( 2009-02-20 )Dine and Mogahed will speak about about developing a new direction for U.S. relations with the Muslim world by advancing four goals: * Using diplomacy as the primary tool for resolving key conflicts involving Muslim ... -
China's Policies Toward the Middle East
Zhu, Feng ( 2012-04-16 )Zhu Feng is professor of international studies and deputy director of the Center for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. He is also senior research fellow at the China Institute of Peace and Development ... -
A Current Events Symposium: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Herrmann, Richard; Tamer, Georges; Webber, Sabra; Mansoor, Peter; Terrien, Patrick ( 2011-05-24 )The panel will analyze the issues surrounding the recent uprisings in the Middle East including Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya. Participants will discuss the historical background, forces driving change, and implications ... -
Deprivation, Violence, and Identities: Mapping Contemporary World Conflicts
Jenkins, J. Craig; Gottlieb, Esther; Kukielka-Blaser, Joanna; Sikainga, Ahmad; Spaulding, Frank; Stephan, Halina ( 2003-10-03 )With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many anticipated the advent of a “new world order” of global capitalism, or even an “end to history,” implying that conflicts based on ideology and competing national interests and ... -
The Development of Early Islamic Political Vocabulary
Donner, Fred ( 2011-04-12 )Donner, discussed several stages of religious and political developments in the early Muslim community and how they shaped political concepts in Islam, which still dominate Islamic political thought. -
Does Inclusion Produce Moderation? Comparative Insight from Islamist Parties
Schwedler, Jillian ( 2005-05-17 ) -
Egypt and the Arab Spring Revolution
Abdel-Khalek, Gouda; Korayem, Karima; Aly, Hassan ( 2012-01-09 )The Arab people revolted against unjust economic models that have left the vast majority of society destitute and marginalized in their own countries. For decades, inappropriate policies were prescribed and imposed by ... -
Entangled Bodies of Learning: Gender, Islam, and Secularism in the Modern Turkish Republic
Hassan, Mona ( 2013-02-18 )Two striking educational trends with their roots in the early Turkish republic have fostered the unexpected emergence of Turkish state-sponsored female preachers. The social engineering of religious education and the ... -
Everyday Modernity, Urban Space and Citizenship: Public Beaches in Early Republican Istanbul
Bozdogan, Sibel ( 2013-02-04 )After more than a decade of relative insignificance in the shadow of the new capital Ankara, the first efforts to renew Istanbul's crumbling urban infrastructure and to transform the city from an oriental, imperial capital ... -
Gendered Bodies/Gendered Wars: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan
Nusair, Isis ( 2009-05-21 )This presentation is based on extensive research with Iraqi women refugees in Jordan during 2007 and 2008. It traces the causes that prompted the women to leave Iraq after 2003. It also traces the transition they went ... -
Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop
Mann, Melanie ( 2009-04-18 )The Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop was launched in 2005 as a more intimate and intensive supplement to the Middle East Studies Association meeting. It encourages exchange among scholars of the history, art, architecture, and ...