"Lost Virgns Found: the Songbook as Genre in Arabic Literature"
Dwight Reynolds
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Monday April 22, 2013
Auditorium C | West Hall | 4:00 pm
"Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Formation of Medieval Andalusian Music"
Dwight Reynolds
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tuesday April 23, 2013
Auditorium C | West Hall | 4:00 pm
“The Maghrib and Uprisings”
Laryssa Chomiak (Center for Maghrib Studies, Tunis)
Robert P. Parks (Center for Maghrib Studies, Algiers)
April 15, 2013 [in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
"British-French rivalry in the Middle East, 1915-48"
James Barr
Author of A Line In The Sand: Britain, France and the struggle for the Middle East
April 9, 2013
“Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon”
Rola el-Husseini
Research Assistant Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY
March 27, 2013
“The International Circulation of Palestinian Kufiyas”
Ted Swedenburg
Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas
March 21, 2013
"After Babel: Dialogue and Cosmopolis"
Fred Dallmayr
Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
March 20, 2013
[in collaboration with the Department of Political Studies, the Arts and Humanities Initiative and the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature ]
“Arab Workers and the Popular Uprisings of 2011”
Joel Beinin
Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University
March 18, 2013
[in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
"Security, Stateness, Popular Sovereignty: Locating New Political Theory in Contentious Egypt"
Paul Amar
Associate Professor in Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
March 12, 2013
[in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
“Contentious Politics and the Arab Uprisings”
John Chalcraft
Reader in History and Politics of Empire/Imperialism, London School of Economics
March 1, 2013
[in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
"Protests and Politics in Jordan"
Tariq Tell
Visiting Assistant Professor at CAMES
February 19, 2013
[in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
“Invisible and Proxy Detention in Counterinsurgencies: Khiam and Salt Pit”
Laleh Khalili
Reader in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies
February 12, 2013
[in collaboration with the Center for American Studies and Research]
"Social Justice, Jobs and Competitiveness: Searching for a Post-Revolution Private Sector Development Agenda in MENA"
Magdi M. Amin
International Finance Corporation (IMF)
December 13, 2012
[in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
"Blowback: The US Drone War in Yemen, Stories from the Field"
Kelly McEvers
National Public Radio
December 6, 2012
[in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
“The Emerging Political Landscape in Egypt – New players and the Constitutional Debates”
Mohamed Elagati
Director of the Arab Forum for Alternatives
November 14, 2012
[in collaboration with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]