Lectures

• Mr. 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.
• Dr. 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.
• Mr. 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.
• Dr. 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.
• Professor 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.

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.

Summer Arabic Program

The application form for the CAMES Summer Arabic Program 2012 is now online. The application deadline is March 15, 2012.