Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy & Herbert C. Kelman, Co-Chairs. Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

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Spring 2002 Schedule

January 31, 2002
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Do They Ever Learn?
Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland

February 7, 2002
The Presidential Elections of 2001 and the Khatami Presidency: Has Anything Changed?
Houchang Chehabi
Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University

February 21, 2002
Fictionalizing the Story of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock
Kanan Makiya
Author of The Rock: A Tale of Seventh Century Jerusalem and Director of the Iraq Research and Documentation Project

March 7, 2002
The Future of the Peace Process: Israeli Perspectives

• Gadi Baltiansky
  Wexner-Israel Fellow, Kennedy School of Government; Media Advisor to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, 1999-2000
• Alon Ben-David
  Wexner-Israel Fellow, Kennedy School of Government; Israeli Broadcasting Authority, Head, News Defense Desk
• Gidi Grinstein
  Wexner-Israel Fellow, Kennedy School of Government; Secretary of the Israeli Negotiating Team for the Permanent Status Agreement, 1999-2001

March 18, 2002
The Future of the Middle East Peace Process
Joint session with the Seminar on International Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Dennis Ross
Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Special Middle East Envoy for the First Bush and Clinton Administrations

March 21, 2002
The Geopolitical Dimensions of the War Against Terrorism
Michael Klare
Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire, Amherst, Smith, and Mount Holyoke Colleges and UMass, Amherst

April 4, 2002
The War on Terrorism and the World Recession: Economic Consequences for the Middle East
Roger Owen
A.J. Meyer Professor of History, Harvard University

April 25, 2002
Israeli Army Refusers: Ethical and Ideological Underpinnings and Societal Responses
Guy Grossman
Masters Candidate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University; Lieutenant (Reserve-Paratroopers); and Member, Leadership Circle, Ometz le'Sarev, The Israeli Refusal Movement

May 2, 2002
U.S.-Iraq Policy: Is Regime Change in Iraq's Future?
Judith Yaphe
Senior Research Professor, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Fall 2001 Schedule

September 20, 2001
The Future of Political Islam
Graham Fuller
Former Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council for long-range forecasting; Resident Senior Consultant at RAND Corporation

October 4, 2001
The Attack Against America: An Arab View
Rami Khouri
Nieman Fellow 2001-2002; Former Editor, The Jordan Times

October 18, 2001
U.S. Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis
Constance Mayer
Senior Middle East Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Near East/South Asia Division, US Department of State

November 1, 2001
An Inside View of the UN and Iraq
Carne Ross
Head of the Middle East Section, United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations

November 15, 2001
Transformations in the Arab World: Empirical Studies, Theoretical Deliberations
Helga Baumgarten
Associate Professor of Political Science at Bir Zeit University

November 29, 2001
Partition in Palestine Revisited: What is a Fair Solution?
Ilan Pappe
Professor of History at Haifa University

December 6, 2001
Cancelled
What Israel Needs Us to Understand in Uncertain Times
Avraham Burg
Speaker of the Israeli Knesset

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