February 15, 2006
“Elections without Democracy: Egyptian Authoritarianism and Islamist Politics in the 2005 Elections”
Denis J. Sullivan
Professor of Political Science
Director, International Affairs Program
Director, Middle East Center for Peace, Culture & Development
Northeastern University
March 1, 2006
Why Fatah Lost and Why It Matters
Constance Mayer,
Senior Middle East Analyst, Office of Near East and South Asia, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
U.S. State Department
March 15, 2006
The Role of Palestinian Poets in Israel 1948-1967
Hunaida Ghanim,
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
March 23, 2006
Palestine 2006: The Politics of Democratic Change
Karma Nabulsi
Fellow in Politics, St. Edmund's Hall,
Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University
April 5, 2006
Jerusalem Under the Shadows of the Wall and the Elections
Menachem Klein
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, MIT and Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
April 19, 2006
Reform in Saudi Arabia: Past, Present and Future
Usamah M. Al-Kurdi
Member, Saudi Consulative Council
April 26, 2006
The Hamas Paradigm: National, Regional and International Repercussions
Mouin Rabbani,
Senior Middle East Analyst, International Crisis Group
April 26, 2006
The Emergence of UAE National Identity in Dubai
Aisha Khalifa,
Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
and Representative, UNESCO Scientific Committee on the Slave Route Project
September 22, 2005
“Personal Experiences with Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in a War Zone: Possibilities and Impossibilities of Civil-Military Cooperation”
Maj. Drs. Rene Teijgeler
October 07, 2005
In the Wake of War: Encounters with the People of Iraq and Afghanistan
Anne Nivat
Journalist
Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government
October 26, 2005
Film Screening of "My Land Zion" and "My Terrorist" followed by a discussion with Yulie Cohen Gerstel
Yulie Cohen Gerstel
Filmmaker, Israel
Co-sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government
November 16, 2005
Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Dan Rabinowitz
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, and Khawla Abu-Baker, Senior Lecturer, Department of Behavioral Science, Emek Yizrael College
December 7, 2005
Saudi Arabia: The Future of Reform
Ondrej Beranek
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
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February 8, 2005
“Can Iraq's Militant Islamists Become Moderate Islamist Parties? Lessons Learned from the Evolution of Hizb Allah in Lebanon”
Henry Munson, Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine
February 24, 2005
“Democratic Reform in the Arab World and Bush's Second Term”
Rami Khoury, Executive Editor, The daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government
March 15, 2005
“Libya: Prospects for Economic and Political Reform”
Diederik Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
March 15, 2005
“Reframing the Palestiniain-Israeli Conflict: A View from the Ground”
Jeffrey Halper, Director, Israel Committee Against Home Demolitions.
Con-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government
March 22, 2005
“Childhood in a War Zone: Living the Civil War in Lebanon”
Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Award-winning author of The Bullet Connection
April 12, 2005
“Middle East Oil: Today and Tomorrow”
Robert Mabro, President and Former Director, Oxford Institute For Energy Studies and Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University.
April 19, 2005
“The Theory of Crisis and the Crisis in Theory: Intellectual History in 20th Century Middle Eastern Studies”
Israel Gershoni, Professor of Middle Eastern history, Tel Aviv University
April 26, 2005
“Islam Lite: Religion, Secularism and the Good Life in Contemporary Turkey”
Jenny White, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
The Interactions between OPEC and the Oil Markets
Robert Mabro, Professor of Economics, Oxford University
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
The Israeli Economy under Prolonged Confrontation: Impact and Possibilities
Eli Sagi, Chair and Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Management, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo and Senior Lecturer, Berglass School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
Monday, October 18, 2004
Marks of a Mindset: Seeing a Global War Against the Jews
Brian Klug, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford University
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Is it time to give up on Arab liberals?
Jon Alterman, Director, Middle East Program, Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC
Tuesday, March 9, 2004
Pluralism in the Arab World: A Critique of the Arab Human Development
Niloofar Haeri, Professor of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins
University, and Author, Sacred Language, Ordinary People:
Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Pious Modern: Lebanese Shi'i Women and the Transformation of Religiosity
Lara Deeb, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard
Tuesday, April 20,2004
Israel and Palestine: Popular Media and the Manufacturing of Consent
Deborah Campbell, Associate Editor, Adbusters Magazine and Author, This Heated Place
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Resurrecting Empire: America and the Western Adventure In the Middle East
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies, Columbia University
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
The Importance of Being Blind: The Nakba and Israeli Culture
Oz Shelach, Journalist, Writer, Novelist, and Author of Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments, Jerusalem and New York
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Conflicting Visions: Social Movements and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel
Patricia J. Woods, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, Harvard University, and Assistant Professor, Political
Science and Jewish Studies, University of Florida
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Hizbollah and Israel: New Rules for the Game
Daniel Sobelman, Correspondent, Jane's Intelligence Review
(Middle East Affairs and Threat Analysis), and Correspondent,
Ha'aretz (International Arab Affairs and Middle East) (1997-2003)
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Israel and Palestine-Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the 21st Century
Marc H, Ellis, University Professor of American and Jewish Studies,
Baylor University, and Director, Center for Americans and Jewish
Studies, Baylor University
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Divinity School
Friday, November 21, 2003
The Bush Administration's Middle East Policy:An Outsider's Critique
Michael Bell, Senior Scholar on Diplomacy, Munk Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto, and Former Ambassador of Canada to Israel,
Egypt and Jordan
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
The Economic Viability of a Future Palestinian State
Ephraim Kleiman, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, MIT & Patinkin Professor
of Economics Emeritus, Hebrew University
Tuesday, December 9,2003
Dr. Zawahri's (Kabul) Computer
Alan Cullison, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal and Neiman Fellow, Harvard University
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Tuesday, February 25, 2003
The al-Aqsa Intifada and Transformations in Palestinian Domestic Politics
Mouin Rabbani, Senior Analyst, Middle East, International Crisis Group
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Political and Economic Issues in Jordan in 2003
Peter Gubser, Director, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), Washington, DC
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Iraq: Is it a Game? Is it Over?
Milton Viorst, Author, In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for
the Soul of Islam and What Shall I Do With This People?: Jews and the
Fractious Politics of Judaism; and (Former) Correspondent on the Middle East, The New Yorker Magazine
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Sufism and Society in Syria
Paulo Pinto, Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in
Anthropology and Political Science, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
The Pressures Within: The Challenging Economics and Politics of Saudi Arabia
John Sfakianakis, Research Fellow, CMES, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
From the Muslim Brothers to the Party of the Center: Transformations in Islamist Politics
Saoud al-Mawlah, (Former) Advisor, The Islamic Shi'ite Supreme Council; Professor of Political Sociology and Religious Anthropology, Lebanese University, Beirut; and Founder, Lebanese National Committee for Muslim-Christian Dialogue
Friday, April 25, 2003
Shi'ite Politics in Lebanon: Between Arabism, Lebanonism and Shi'ism
Dr. Omri Nir, Visiting Scholar, CMES, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
U.S. Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration
Augustus Richard Norton, Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, Boston University
Monday, September 30, 2002, 2:30-4:00 PM
Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Way Out
Jeffrey Halper, Coordinator, Israeli Committee Against House Demolition; (Former) Professor of Applied Anthropology, Ben Gurion University
Kennedy School of Government, Littauer 150
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government
Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 4:00-6:00 PM
The Tragedy of the Middle East
Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs Center, Interdisciplinary University, Herzliya, Israel
Special time and place: CMES 4th Floor Seminar Room
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government
Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 12:00-1:30 PM
Protecting Palestinian Worker's Rights in the West Bank and Gaza
Hasan Barghouthi, General Director, Democracy and Workers' Rights Centre, Ramallah, West Bank
CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue, 4th floor seminar room
Thursday, December 5, 12:00-1:30 PM
Kuwait's Economic Quandry: Implications for the War Against Iraq
Karen Pfeifer, Professor of Economics, Smith College
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February 5
Reflections on the Crisis in Afghanistan: Implications for the Arab World
Ghanim Al-Najjar, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Strategic and Future Studies, Kuwait University
February 19
Palestinian Labor Flow to Israel: Is it Over?
Leila Farsakh, Research Affiliate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
March 5
Women in the Jordanian Parliamentary Elections: A Socio-Political Analysis
Ellen Kettaneh Khouri, Director, Al Kutba Institute for Human Development, Amman, Jordan
March 12
Egypt: From Economic Depression to Political Stagnation
John Sfakianakis, Research Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
March 19
Israeli Media and the Articulation of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, PhD Candidate, Department of Communications, University of Massachusetts, Amherst OVER
April 2
Socialist Zionism and the Arab Question: An Analysis of National Separatism in Ben-Gurion and the Labour Zionist Movement , 1905-1939
Mariko Kamoshita, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2001-2), Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
April 25
From Oslo to Taba: Why Peace Was Lost
Alain Gresh, Editor-in-Chief, Le Monde Diplomatique
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February 5
The Clinton Administration's Middle East Policy: An Analysis
Mr. Aaron Miller ,Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator, Department of State, Washington, D.C.
March 6
Recent Egyptian Elections
Mona Makram-Abeid, Professor, American University in Cairo
March 13
Rivals in Central Asia?: Turkish and Iranian Initiatives in the Region
Farhad Atai, Yarshater Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Associate Professor, Imam Sadeq University, Iran
March 20
Traditional Healers, Alternative Medicine, and Bio-Medicine in a Pluralistic Society: A Case Study of Israel
Judith Shuval, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Professor of Sociology and Rose Chair in the Sociology of Health, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
April 12
Islamizing Democracy vs. Democratizing Islam: Contemporary Iranian Religious Modernist Debates
Farough Jahanbakhsh, Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Queens University, Canada
April 17
Healthcare in Palestine: An Imminent Crisis
Jay J. Schnitzer, MD, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Division of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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