Events

2012 - 13

Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Is Yemen a Failed State?
Bernard Haykel, Near Eastern Studies and director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Robertson Hall
Cosponsored by the Mamhouda S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice; the Institute for the Transregional Studies of the Contemprorary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; and the Department of and Program in Near Eastern Studies

Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party: Inside and Authoritarian Regime
Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 1 Robertson Hall
Cosponsored by the Mamhouda S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice; the Institute for the Transregional Studies of the Contemprorary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; and the Department of and Program in Near Eastern Studies

Thursday, November 15, 2012
US Election Outcome and its Impact on the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Plan
Kahlil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
Daniel Kurtzer, WWS
Amaney Jamal, Politics; director, Workshop on Arab Political Development; director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Roberston Hall
Cosponsored by the Mamhouda S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice; the Institute for the Transregional Studies of the Contemprorary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; and the Department of and Program in Near Eastern Studies

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
How Not to Write a Constitution: Lessons from Egypt
Marina Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
4:30 p.m.
Dodds Auditorium
Cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice; the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; and the Department of and Program in Near Eastern Studies.

Friday, February 22, 2013
PIIRS Director's Book Forum
Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All? (Princeton Univeristy Press, 2012)
Amaney Jamal, associate professor of politics, director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and of the Workshop on Arab Political Development
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Lunch will be provided.

Thursday, March 7, 2013
New Perspectives on the Modern Middle East: Meet the Author Series
M. Hakan Yavuz,University of Utah, author of
Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey and Toward and Islamic Enlightenment: The Gülen Movement
4:30 p.m.
Room 101 Bobst Hall
83 Prospect Avenue
Cosponsored by the Workshop on Arab Political Development and the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria
Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Robertson Hall
Cosponsored with the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia

FACULTY/STUDENT COLLOQUIA
All meetings are held in Aaron Burr Hall. INVITATION ONLY.

September 18, 2012
Elizabeth Nugent
4:30 p.m.

October 19, 2012
Lamis Abdelaaty
Noon

October 23, 2012
Kevin Mazur
4:30 p.m.

November 14, 2012
Erin Snyder
6:30 p.m.

March 15, 2013
Eric Lob
11:30 a.m.

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