An event sponsored jointly by the Middle East Forum and the WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar

THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM

Spring 2008

Roger Owen and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs

WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar

Herbert C. Kelman, Lenore G. Martin, and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs

The Crisis of the Nation-State: Lebanon, Israel, Palestine

by

Nubar Hovsepian
Associate Professor of Political Science, Chapman University

Bio: Jennifer Selby is currently a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow with the Islam in the West program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She completed her PhD in 2007 (Religious Studies, McMaster University, Canada) examining secularism and gender politics in France.

View Jennifer Selby's PowerPoint presentation.

SADIK AL-AZM

Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University;

Noah Feldman is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.  He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory.  He is the author of the forthcoming The Fall and Rise of the Islamic state (Princeton University Press, March 2008).

Discussant: Professor Roger Owen