Experts examine U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Arab region

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IFI and the New America Foundation panel event, "Rethinking U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa", with Leila Hilal, co-Director of the New America Foundation Middle East Task Force, Michael Wahid Hanna, Fellow at The Century Foundation, and Rami Khouri, Director of the Issam Fares Institute.

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Thinking-Feeling Arab Uprising

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The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut and the department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies held a lecture entitled, "Thinking-Feeling in Protest Movements: Lessons from the Arab Spring" with James Jasper, Professor at the City University of New York.

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In conversation with post-Mubarak Egyptian presidential candidate

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Co-sponsored with AUB's Office of the Provost and UN-ESCWA, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Presidential Candidate for the Arab Republic of Egypt and Secretary-General of the Arab Medical Union, in conversation with Tarek Mitri, Senior Research Fellow at IFI, and former Minister of Culture and Minister of Information.

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Chilean and Bulgarian perspectives on transitions to democracy

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Co-sponsored with AUB's Office of the Provost and UN-ESCWA, "Reform & Transitions to Democracy: Global Legacies", a panel discussion with Michelle Bachelet, Former President of Chile and Executive Director of UN Women, and Nickolay Mladenov, Bulgarian Foreign Minister.

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Legal scholar questions constitutional validity of Tunisian elections

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Organized by the department of Political Studies and Public Administration, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at the American University of Beirut, "Law, Democracy and the Arab Spring?" with David Beatty, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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AUB panel assesses the nature of the uprisings

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The inauguration of a multi-year AUB-IFI research project studying the current political transformations in the Arab world, "Understanding the Arab...Spring? Uprising? Revolution? Awakening? Citizen revolt?", with Fawaz Traboulsi, lecturer at AUB, writer and historian, Tarek Mitri, Senior Research Fellow at IFI, and former Minister of Culture and Minister of Information, and Rabab Al-Mahdi, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo.

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"From Tahrir Square to a New Republic: The Challenges of Promoting Democratic Constitutionalism in Egypt Today", a public policy briefing and discussion with Egyptian democracy activist and youth organizations coordinator Abdul Rahman Hamdy Jad.

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Please note: this event is in Arabic.