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 2004 Schedule

February 12, 2004
The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Tariq Ali
Historian, Novelist, Filmmaker, Editor, New Left Review, and Author, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq, and The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

February 26, 2004
Envisioning Alternative Futures for Iraq
Phebe Marr
Author, Modern History of Iraq, and Former Senior Fellow, National Defense University

March 11, 2004
The Druze Community in Israel
Zeidan Atashi
Former Israeli Diplomat and Member of Knesset

March 25, 2004
The EU and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Pasi Patokallio
Former Ambassador of Finland to Israel and Cyprus and Fellow, WCFIA

April 19, 2004
In Search of a Realistic and Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Geneva Accord
Joint session with the HCK Seminar on International Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Alexis Keller
Senior Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation; Fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, JFK School of Government

April 22, 2004
WCFIA Jodidi Lecture
Geneva Initiative—Realistic Utopia: Creating a Window of Opportunity in a Wall of Separation
Amram Mitzna
Member of Israeli Knesset, Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister in 2003, former WCFIA Fellow

May 6, 2004
Palestinian and Israeli Missed Opportunities
Philip J. Mattar Guest Scholar, United States Institute of Peace

Fall 2003 Schedule

September 23, 2003
Lessons From Kuwait's Democratic Experience
Ahmad Bishara
Professor, Kuwait University

October 2, 2003
The Dialectics of Revolution and Reform in the Islamic Republic
Bahman Baktiari
Professor of International Relations, University of Maine

October 16, 2003
The Rage of Osama Bin Laden
Henry Munson
Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine and Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, Harvard University

October 23, 2003
Claiming the Land of Israel: The Vagaries of Political Correctness in a Century-Old Dispute
S. Ilan Troen
Lopin Professor of Modern History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Stoll Family Professor of Israel Studies, Brandeis University

October 30, 2003
Post-War Failings in Iraq
David Phillips
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council of Foreign Relations and Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

November 13, 2003
The Militarization of the Intifadah: Reasons, Impact, and Future Implications
Salah Jawad
Associate Professor of Political Science and History, Bir Zeit University, West Bank

November 20, 2003
Syria in the Post-Iraq Middle East
Peter Ford
British Ambassador to Damascus and former WCFIA Fellow

December 4, 2003
Ghetto Politics and Radical Religion among Postwar Iraqi Shiites
Juan Cole
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern and South Asian History, University of Michigan

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