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 2006 Schedule

February 9, 2006
Reflections on Iran’s Political Scene
Houchang Chehabi
Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University

February 23, 2006
Reflections of an International Observer of the 2006 Palestinian Parliamentary Elections
With comments by Herbert C. Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Harvard University
Lenore Martin
Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Emmanuel College; Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Research Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

March 16, 2006
Lebanon: Back to the Future
Augustus Richard Norton
Professor of International Relations and Anthropology, Boston University

March 23, 2006
Israeli-Palestinian Economic Relations in View of the Gaza Disengagement and the Palestinian Elections
Ephram Kleiman
Patinkin Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

April 6, 2006
Syria at the Crossroads
Sadik Al-Azm
Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University; Emeritus Professor of the Modern European Philosophy, Damascus University

April 20, 2006
The Politics of Reproduction in Israel: Genetic Exchanges Between Jews and Muslims
Susan Kahn
Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

April 27, 2006
Terrorists, Tyrants, Tycoons and Theocrats: U.S. Policy Challenges in the Middle East
Daniel Kurtzer
S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel

Fall 2005 Schedule

September 22, 2005
Reforming Egypt: What Lies Ahead?
Abdel Monem Said Aly
Director of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, and Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

October 6, 2005
How Far Can a Hegemon Go? Reflections on the U.S. Administration's Reform and Regime Change Agenda in the Middle East
Michael Hudson
Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Professor of International Relations, and Seif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

October 27, 2005
Four Years and Counting: A Critical Arab View of the War, Peace, Justice and Terror Cycle in the Middle East
Rami Khouri
Internationally syndicated columnist and Editor-at-large of The Daily Star

November 3, 2005
Palestinian Politics after Disengagement and the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections
Khalil Shikaki
Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, and Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

November 10, 2005
The Israeli Judiciary: Fighting Terror and Enforcing Human Rights Under the Law
Ayala Procaccia
Justice, Supreme Court of Israel

November 17, 2005
Moving Back to Move Forward: The Oslo Accords
Daniel Heradstveit
Professor and Senior Research Associate, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and Visiting Professor, Syracuse University

December 1, 2005
Psychological Foundations of Intractable Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Case
Daniel Bar-Tal
Professor of Psychology at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, and Visiting Scholar at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University

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