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	1	2 The BOSTON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL comes to HARVARD LAW SCHOOL for four screenings on Oct 2 and Oct 3 Start: 6:30 pm Organizational Meeting: Graduate Film Series Workshop Start: 7:00 pm End: 8:00 pm	3 The BOSTON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL comes to HARVARD LAW SCHOOL for four screenings on Oct 2 and Oct 3 End: 8:30 pm The Middle East at 2008: Challenges for the U.S. Start: 5:30 pm End: 7:30 pm The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Start: 6:00 pm End: 7:30 pm	4 Death and Taxes: A Rational Theory of Democratic Grand Strategy Start: 12:15 pm End: 2:00 pm Hamas and the Challenge of Democratic Transformation in Palestine Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm The Arab/Israeli Conflict in France: Muslims/Jews and the Origins of Ethnonationalism Start: 4:15 pm End: 6:00 pm The Arab Human Development Report: The Rise of Women in the Arab World Start: 4:30 pm End: 6:00 pm Turkish Film Series: Hokkabaz / The Magician Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:30 pm	5	6
7	8	9 Middle East Film Screening: "Le Grand Voyage" Start: 5:00 pm End: 7:30 pm Film screening: La Grande Voyage (France/Morocco) Start: 5:00 pm End: 7:30 pm	10	11 On Borders and [dis] Orders: The Effects of the International Norm of 'Border Fixity' (The Case of Lebanon) Start: 12:15 pm End: 2:00 pm A Seminar with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone Start: 5:00 pm End: 6:30 pm	12 Ian Klaus reads from Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq Start: 3:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Join the IAB in Celebrating Rumi Start: 8:00 pm	13
14 Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia Start: 7:30 pm End: 9:30 pm	15 Club Medina "Sound and Space in Islamic Music and Architecture Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm 2007 H.A.R. Gibb Lectures Start: 4:00 pm	16 2007 H.A.R. Gibb Lectures all day Baghdad Viewed from Washington, Washington Viewed from Baghdad: A Guide for the Perplexed Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Veiled Monologues: Performances and Panel Discussions Start: 7:30 pm	17 2007 H.A.R. Gibb Lectures End: 6:00 pm Veiled Monologues: Performances and Panel Discussions all day A Dialogue on "Strengthening America: The Civic and Political Integration of Muslim Americans" Start: 11:30 am End: 2:00 pm Public Islam in France Today Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Turkish Secularism and Political Islam Start: 4:30 pm End: 6:00 pm A Tale of Two Towns: 4,500-Year Old Urban Footprints at Giza, Egypt Start: 6:15 pm	18 Veiled Monologues: Performances and Panel Discussions all day Iran and Saudi Arabia: Regional Power Relations and Prospects for Peace Start: 12:00 pm End: 1:30 pm Must an entente be cordial? The Mediterranean Lingua Franca Start: 12:00 pm Assessing the US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Address By Dr. Naomi Chazan Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm The International Middle East Peace Conference: Reaching a Successful Resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Start: 4:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Leading by Dividing: The Case of Greece and Turkey after 1922 Start: 4:15 pm End: 6:00 pm TURKISH FILM: Climates Start: 5:30 pm	19 Veiled Monologues: Performances and Panel Discussions all day	20 Veiled Monologues: Performances and Panel Discussions all day The Middle East Today: New Perspectives on a Changing Landscape Start: 4:00 pm
21 Veiled Monologues: Performances and Panel Discussions End: 10:00 pm The Middle East Today: New Perspectives on a Changing Landscape End: 5:00 pm	22 MIT Aga Khan Program Fall 2007 Lecture by Nebahat Avcioglu and Azra Aksamija Start: 5:30 pm	23 Primary Sources of Hezbollah: Translations of the Statements of Hassan Nasrallah by Ellen Khouri Start: 12:00 pm End: 1:30 pm FRONTLINE program "Showdown with Iran" airing Tuesday Start: 9:00 pm	24 Six Years of the War on Terror: The View from Beirut Start: 12:15 pm End: 1:45 pm Which Middle East Conflict?, Dr. Martin Kramer Start: 12:30 pm End: 2:00 pm	25 The Semitic Question, Professor Gil Anidjar Start: 12:00 pm End: 1:30 pm Palestine, Human Rights and International Law Start: 6:00 pm End: 7:30 pm Chehabi to Speak at Merrimack College on the Role of Iran in Lebanon Start: 7:00 pm	26 Writing Baghdad from Exile Start: 12:00 pm End: 1:00 pm A View from Inside Iraq: Destruction of a Public Health System and Breeches of Medical Neutrality Start: 12:30 pm End: 1:30 pm ARABESK Music Start: 9:00 pm	27
28	29 A Year into the Lebanon War: NGO-ing Mizrahi-Arab Paradoxes, and a One State Vision for Palestine/Israel Start: 4:15 pm End: 6:00 pm Harvard Middle East Cultural Association Meeting Start: 5:30 pm	30 Lebanon's Political Gridlock Start: 4:30 pm End: 6:30 pm	31 "Islam in the West" Graduate Research Workshop, First Meeting Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:00 pm