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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The Middle East Seminar meets Thursdays, 4:00–6:00 p.m., in the Bowie-Vernon Room at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge St., unless otherwise indicated.

Spring 2008 Schedule

February 7
Palestine versus the Palestinians
Beshara Doumani
Associate Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley; Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

February 21
Radicalism and militancy in Pakistan-Afghanistan and their impact on the Arab World.
Husain Haqqani
Director, Center for International Relations, and Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University.

March 6
The Crisis of the Nation-State: Lebanon, Israel, Palestine
Nubar Hovsepian
Associate Professor of Political Science, Chapman University
This session is co-sponsored by the Middle East Forum of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

March 20
Occidentalism
Sadik Al-Azm
Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University; Emeritus Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Damascus University.

April 3
Canceled
Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States: Competition, Crisis, and the Reordering of Power
Scott Lasensky
Acting Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, United States Institute of Peace.

April 17
Israel as the State of the Jewish People and its Arab Minority
Asher Susser
Director for External Affairs, Dayan Center for Middle East Studies, Tel Aviv University; Senior Fellow on the Kraft Chair in Arab Politics, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University.

Fall 2007 Schedule

September 20
Israel and Syria: Lessons of the Past, Prospects for the Future?
Itamar Rabinovich
Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.; former chief negotiator with Syria; Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair in Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

October 4
Hamas and the Challenge of Democratic Transformation in Palestine
Helga Baumgarten
DAAD Professor of Political Science; head of M.A. program, Democracy and Human Rights, Birzeit University, Palestine.
This session is co-sponsored by the Middle East Forum of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

October 18
The International Middle East Peace Conference: Reaching a Successful Resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Henry Siegman
Director, U.S./Middle East Project, Inc.; Research Professor, Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

November 1
Lebanon’s Political Stalemate: A Critical Analysis
Augustus Richard Norton
Professor, International Relations and Anthropology, Boston University

Rami G. Khouri
Editor-at-large, The Daily Star; Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut.

November 15
Human Rights in Iraq: Past, Present and Future
Ann Clwyd
British MP; special envoy to the prime minister on human rights in Iraq.
Please note time change: 12:00-2:00pm

November 29
Iran’s Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf Region
Kayhan Barzegar
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran; Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

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Lawler, Elizabeth