CNES Podcasts
Whither Syria? Historian Gelvin Looks at Arab Uprisings
UCLA Professor of History James Gelvin told an audience on campus on May 25 that the overthrow of Syria's regime amid unrest is possible but "highly unlikely," because Bashar al-Assad has a hold on power unlike that of Egypt's Mubarak and others. Listen to an audio podcast of the talk.
Posted: 5/26/2011
Two Premature Rumors of the Mediterraneans Death: Fishing Wars, Maritime Gentrification, and Social Anthropology of Region Formation in the Channel of Sicily Since WWII
A lecture by Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Harvard University
Posted: 5/17/2011
From the Shah to the Ayatollah, Continuities and Ruptures
A lecture by Abbas Milani, Stanford University
Posted: 5/17/2011
Melting Pots and Promised Lands: Early Zionism and the Idea of America
A lecture by Hilton Obenzinger, Stanford University
Posted: 4/6/2011
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism 1860-1914
A lecture by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University
Posted: 1/27/2011
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism 1860-1914
A lecture by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University
Posted: 1/27/2011
Taxonomies, Minorities, and Boundaries: The League of Nations and the Interwar Middle East
A lecture by Sarah Shields, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Posted: 11/12/2010
From Early Judeo-Iranian Jargons to Central Asiatic Argots of Rom Groups: Evidence for an Influential Jewish Underworld in the Late Abbasid Period
A lecture by Martin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley
Posted: 11/2/2010
War, Citizenship and Memory in Iraq
A lecture by Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
Posted: 2/23/2010
Economic Roots of Iran's Long, Hot Summer of 2009
A paper presented by Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
The Global Kaffiyya Craze
A paper presented by Ted Swedenburg, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
Arabs and Muslims in Mainstream American Culture
A paper presented by Louise Cainkar, Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Studies, Marquette University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
