CAMES Events 2012-2013

“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]

“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]

CAMES Events 2011-2012

Film presentation

Sheikh Zayid Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2012

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

• “Israel is not Quite Apartheid South Africa: An African Perspective on the Palestine Question”
• “Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Reflections on Nuremberg and CODESA”

Lectures

• Katherine E. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University gave a lecture entitled "Revolution’s Refugees: Transnational Amazigh (Berber) Networks and Tunisian Responses to Displaced Libyans" on May 16, 2012.
• Siba Grovogui, Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University gave a lecture entitled “The Responsibility to Protect: An Unconventional History of Postwar Interventions” on May 17, 2012.
• 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.

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.