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Between Minorities and the Masses: The Paradoxes of Kamal Junblat (1917-1977)
A talk by Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto.
Posted: 6/12/2012
Historical and contemporary patterns of regime change in Arab republics: revolutions, coups, transitions, interventions, dynastic succession - and back?
A talk by Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond.
Posted: 6/12/2012
Jordan’s King Abdullah and the “Tribal” Problem: The Challenges of Patronage, Protests, and Reform
A talk by Jillian Schwedler, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Posted: 6/12/2012
Personalism in Decline? Collective Rule and the Prospects for Military Abdication in Egypt
A talk by Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University.
Posted: 6/12/2012
Reformer to Tyrant: The Corruption of Bashar al-Asad and the Syrian System
A talk by David Lesch, Trinity University.
Posted: 6/12/2012
The Arab Dark Age, 1974-2011: Sociological Features of the Road to Revolution
A talk by Mohammed Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh.
Posted: 6/12/2012
The Cult of Personality in the Arab World
A talk by Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University/Oxford University.
Posted: 6/12/2012
The Revolutionary Process in Egypt: a horizontalist challenge to personalized power?
A talk by John Chalcraft, London School of Economics.
Posted: 6/12/2012
Women, Democracy and Dictatorship
A talk by Sami Zubaida, Birbeck College, University of London.
Posted: 6/12/2012
2012 Levi Della Vida Conference:"Structures of Personalized Power in the Modern Middle East: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Party Bosses" Keynote Address
Keynote lecture by 2012 Levi Della Vida Award recipient Roger Owen, Harvard University
Posted: 5/29/2012
A video interview with Professor Hagit Lavsky
Hebrew University Professor Hagit Lavsky, the Nazarian Center Visiting Scholar for Winter and Spring quarters of 2011, talks about her experiences teaching at UCLA.
Posted: 5/23/2012
Urban Renewal and its Discontents: IBA 1984/87
A lecture by Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Posted: 5/21/2012
Rebellion and Repression on the Arabian Peninsula
Tariq Ali, editor, New Left Review
Posted: 5/14/2012
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A lecture by Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia
Posted: 5/14/2012
Beautiful Resistance: Defying the Occupation Through the Theater and the Arts
Talk by Abdelfattah Abusrour, Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Center
Posted: 5/9/2012
Living History with Professor James L. Gelvin
Gelvin is the author of the recently released book "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know"
Posted: 5/9/2012
Osama bin Laden Was Not Caught Because of Torture but in Spite of It: Daily Beast Op-Ed by Burkle Center Fellow Matthew Alexander
Contrary to the claims by the man who ran the CIA’s torture program, attempts to find and kill Osama bin Laden were hindered by waterboarding and other torture techniques.
Posted: 5/8/2012
Multitasking in the Middle East: Obama and the Challenges of Israel, Iran, and the Arab Awakening - a talk by Jeremy Ben-Ami, President of J-Street
A talk by the President & Founder of J-Street, Jeremy Ben-Ami. This event was co-sponsored by the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Posted: 5/1/2012
Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Afaf Nash and Susan Slyomovics
Afaf Nash reads "there is still a sun that rises…"by Abdul Satar (Abu Ali), from the documentary film A Candle for the Shabandar Cafe (directed by Emad Ali). Susan Slyomovics reads the English translation of the same poem.
Posted: 4/26/2012
A Night with Abbas Maroufi (in Persian)
A talk and reading by Abbas Maroufi, author of The Symphony of the Dead
Posted: 4/23/2012
How much Arabic is in my poems: A Poetry reading interspersed by an essay on poetics and politics
Poet Maged Zaher
Posted: 4/23/2012
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