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 2007 Schedule

February 8, 2007
Inching Toward and Looking Beyond Negotiations: A Dual Strategy for Reviving the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Herbert C. Kelman
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, and Co-chair, Middle East Seminar, Harvard University

March 8, 2007
Between Iraq and Afghanistan: Iran's Strategies toward Regional Political Conflicts and Controversies
Eric Hooglund
Professor of Politics, Bates College

March 22, 2007
Washington's Challenge: Managing Short-Term Crises and Long-Term Goals in the Middle East
Ellen Laipson
President and CEO, the Henry L. Stimson Center

April 5, 2007
Politics of the Database: Science and Water Sustainability in Yemen
Steven C. Caton
Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Harvard University

April 19, 2007
Iraq's Identity Politics: Where is it Headed?
Phebe Marr
Iraq specialist; former research professor, National Defense University; and member of the Expert Working Group on Political Development of the Iraq Study Group

April 26, 2007
Israel, Palestine and the U.S.: Moving towards Peace?
Robert Malley
Middle East and North Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group, Washington, D.C.

May 10 , 2007
From Geneva to Riyadh: Constructing a Peace Process that Delivers
Daniel Levy
Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Programs at both New America Foundation and The Century Foundation; former official Israeli negotiator and advisor in the Prime Minister's office; and lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative.

Fall 2006 Schedule

September 28, 2006
Israel/Palestine: History Undecided
Afif Safieh
The Head of the PLO Mission in Washington D.C.; Visiting Scholar (1985–1987), Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

October 12, 2006
Israel Update: The Current Situation in Israel and the Middle East
Nadav Tamir
Consul General of Israel to New England; former Wexner Israel Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

October 26, 2006
Cancelled
Iran in the International Arena
Abbas Maleki
Assistant Professor, Sharif University; former adviser to Iran's foreign minister, 1997-2002; and Senior Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

November 2, 2006
War in Iraq: A journalist's life
Dexter Filkins
Baghdad correspondent, The New York Times; and Nieman Fellow, Harvard University.

November 9, 2006
A Meeting with Khalid Mish'al: Will it be Hamas that Makes the Peace with Israel?
Raymond G. Helmick, S. J.
Professor of Conflict Resolution, Department of Theology, Boston College

November 15, 2006
Generals in the Cabinet Room: The Military and Israel's Policy in the War in Lebanon
Yoram Peri
Head, Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society, and Professor of Political Sociology and Communication, Tel Aviv University
Please note: This seminar is held on Wednesday from 4:00-6:00 PM instead of the regular Thursday time slot.

November 30, 2006
The Arab World and the Christian West: The Unending Struggle
Milton Viorst
Scholar, journalist

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