Sheikh Zayid Distinguished Visiting Scholar

Mahmood Mamdani, Professor at Makarere University, Uganda and at Columbia University, USA, will come to CAMES as the Sheikh Zayid Distinguished Visiting Scholar during the period May 13-19, 2012. During this time he will deliver two lectures:

• “Israel is not Quite Apartheid South Africa: An African Perspective on the Palestine Question”
  Monday May 14, Auditorium A, West Hall, 5:00 PM
• “Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Reflections on Nuremberg and CODESA”
  Friday May 18, Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, 5:00 PM

Opening for a visiting assistant professor at CAMES

CAMES invites applications for a two-year appointment as visiting assistant professor, starting September 1, 2012. For more information, please check the website of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences here.

Forthcoming Lectures

• Katherine E. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University will give a lecture entitled "Revolution’s Refugees: Transnational Amazigh (Berber) Networks and Tunisian Responses to Displaced Libyans" on Wednesday May 16, 2012, Auditorium C, West Hall, 5:00 PM.
• Siba Grovogui, Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University will give a lecture entitled “The Responsibility to Protect: An Unconventional History of Postwar Interventions” on Thursday May 17, 2012, in Auditorium B1, College Hall at 6:00 PM.

Lectures

• James Jasper, Professor at the City University of New York, gave a lecture entitled “Thinking-Feeling in Protest Movements: Lessons from the Arab Spring" on March 26, 2012. The lecture may be viewed on this link: http://dr.aub.edu.lb/mod/data/view.php?d=3&rid=1692
• Reinoud Leenders, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, gave a lecture entitled “Collective Action and Popular Mobilization in Dar’a: An Anatomy of the Onset of Syria’s Popular Uprising” on March 28, 2012 [co-sponsored by the Netherlands Institute in Beirut - NI-Beirut]
• Ahmed Kanna, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & International Studies at the University of the Pacific, gave a lecture entitled “A Politics of Non-Recognition? Arab Gulf Worker Protests in a Year of Uprisings" on Thursday March 15, 2012.
• Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis gave a lecture entitled “Family and State in the Arab World: Re-Framing Inquiries” on Wednesday March 14, 2012.
• Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, gave a lecture entitled “Arab and Arab American Feminisms” on Tuesday January 17, 2012.
• Francis Ghilès, a senior research fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), and long-time correspondent for The Financial Times, gave a talk entitled "A Conversation on the ‘Arab Spring’ in North Africa" on October 18, 2011.
•  Paul Keleman, Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, gave a lecture entitled “Exploring the root of western support for Zionism: the case of the British Labour Party” on November 2, 2011.
• Anthony Shadid, foreign correspondent for The New York Times, gave a lecture entitled “Imagining Otherwise: Covering the Arab Revolts from Tunisia to Bahrain” on November 17, 2011. The lecture may be viewed on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmzfmoIBQo
• Jane Harrigan, Professor of Economics at SOAS, gave a lecture entitled "The Political Economy of Aid Flows to the Arab World" on December 1, 2011.

Summer Arabic Program

CAMES will offer a waiver of the $4,212 tuition fee in the 2012 summer Arabic program to two students applying to the Advanced or Superior levels. The recipients must have excellent academic records and letters of reference. For more information on how to apply, please email CAMES.

Film

The CAMES Film Society held a screening of “Tin Roof Ghetto in Tripoli, Lebanon”, directed by Sharif Abdunnur on Thursday November 24, 2011 in Bathish Auditorium, West Hall. The film was followed by a discussion with the director.