Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series with John Warner
Political Struggle in Yemen: Historical Conditions and Contemporary Developments
Monday, November 14, 2011 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Research Hall, 161
The Series Continues...
Elite Cohesion and Social Heterogeneity: Syria and the Arab Uprisings
Bassam Haddad
Tuesday, November 15, 4:30 pm
David King Room 1006
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Forthcoming, 2011, Stanford University Press). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal a peer-reviewed research publication and is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of a critically acclaimed film series on Arabs and Terrorism, based on extensive field research/interviews. He recently directed a film on Arab/Muslim immigrants in Europe, titled The "Other" Threat. Bassam also serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report and is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Program for Good Governance and Political Reform in the Arab World.
Elliott Colla
Thursday, November 17, 12:00 pm
Research Hall Room 162
Elliott Colla is chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine, and author of Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity (Duke University Press, 2007), and translator of works of contemporary Arabic literature, including Ibrahim Aslan'’s novel, The Heron, Idris Ali’'s Poor, and Ibrahim al-Koni's Gold Dust, as well as works by Yahya al-Tahir ‘Abdallah, Ghada Abdel Meniem and others. He is currently translating The Animists, al-Koni's epic of the Sahara, and Rabai al-Madhoun's The Lady from Tel Aviv (Telegram Books, 2012).
From Dictatorship to Constituent Assembly: What Comes After the October Elections in Tunisia
Douja Mamelouk
Monday, November 21, 12:00 pm
Research Hall Room 162
Dr. Douja Mamelouk was born in Tunis, Tunisia. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French Literature from Willamette University, Salem Oregon (1998), a Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University in Cairo (2000) and a certificate in Sustainable Development from the University of the Middle East in Casablanca, Morocco (2000). She received her Ph.D. in Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics from Georgetown University (2010). She has taught at Georgetown University, Catholic University and the George Washington University, all in the District of Columbia. Douja is currently an Assistant Professor of Arabic and French Literature at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Saudi Arabia's Counterrevolutions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Rosie Bsheer
Monday, December 5, 12 pm
Research Hall Room 161
Rosie Bsheer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University, where she also earned a Master of Arts in International Relations in 2006. Her academic training has been primarily in the history, politics, and culture of the modern Middle East, with a focus on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Since 2010, Rosie has also served as Co-Editor for Jadaliyya. Rosie just returned to New York City after two years of conducting dissertation research in Saudi Arabia as an SSRC-IDRF fellow and Columbia University GSAS fellow for her dissertation, currently titled “Making History: Petro-modernity and Spatial Transformations in Saudi Arabia.
The Fall of Anti-Regime Politics in Lebanon
Maya Mikdashi
Date & Location TBD
Maya Mikdashi is a PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of Anthropology and Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad. She is co-founder of Jadaliyya Ezine.
Sponsored by Middle East Studies Program, Global Islamic Studies, Arab Studies Institute.
