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
The Middle East Seminar meets Thursdays, 4:00–6:00 p.m., in the Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge St., unless otherwise indicated.
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- Middle East Seminar
- Date: September 17, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Iran Post-Election Crisis: What's Changed? What Remains the Same?"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Banuazizi, Ali
Professor of Political Science, and Co-director, Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Boston College.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: September 22, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room K354
- This is open to the public.
"Israel: The Strategy of the Iron Wall Revisited"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Shlaim, Avi
Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: October 8, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The Obama Administration and the Middle East Peace Process"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Makovsky, David
Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: October 15, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The Prospects of Iran-U.S. Relations in Ahmadinejad's Second Term"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Barzegar, Kayhan
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran; 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; Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: October 29, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"The Goldstone Fact-Finding Mission to Gaza: A Participant's Perspective on the Process, Analyses, Findings and Questions"
Co-sponsored by the Middle East Forum, Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Travers, Desmond
Co-author, "The UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict" (Goldstone Report); Director, The International Institute for Criminal Investigation (IICI), The Hague.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: November 5, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Assessing the Impact of 16 Years of International 'Peacebuilding' in Palestine"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Sayigh, Yezid
Professor of Middle East Studies, King's College, London. Visiting Scholar, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: November 19, 2009
- Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Protest and Paranoia in Iran"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
*Please note the special time for this seminar meeting.
- Speakers
- Esfandiari, Haleh
Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; author, "My prison, my home: One woman's story of captivity in Iran."
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: November 23, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Obama and the Arab World: Prospects for Change in American Mideast Policy"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Rogan, Eugene
Director, the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: December 3, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Saudi Arabia and 'Rentier Exceptionalism': Oil Price Fluctuations, State Responses and Political Mobilization"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Gause, III, F. Gregory
Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont. Kuwait Foundation Visiting Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: February 4, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"This Land is My Land? The Israeli Settlement Project in the West Bank in Comparative Perspective"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Eiran, Ehud
Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: March 4, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Why Has Obama Been Unable to Move Netanyahu on the Palestinian Question?"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Cohen, Stephen P.
President, Institute for Middle East Peace and Development. Author, "Beyond America's Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East."
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: March 25, 2010
- Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, WCFIA, Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262)
- This is open to the public.
"Prospects for Peace: The Israeli Perspective"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
*Please note that the meeting time for this event is not at its normally scheduled time.
- Speakers
- Tamir, Nadav
Consul General of Israel to New England, Consulate General of Israel, Boston.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: April 8, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, WCFIA, Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262)
- This is open to the public.
"U.S. Policy Toward the Near East Region: Constraints and Challenges"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Feltman, Jeffrey
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department; former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: April 22, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, WCFIA, Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262)
- This is open to the public.
"How do Islamists Party? The Muslim Brotherhood and Electoral Politics in the Arab World"
- Speakers
- Brown, Nathan
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
- Middle East Seminar
- Date: April 29, 2010
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., WCFIA, Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262)
- This is open to the public.
"Shaping State Policy in the Middle East: The Defining Importance of Local Priorities and the Receding Influence of the West"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
- Speakers
- Gresh, Alain
Deputy Director, Le Monde Diplomatique.
