Middle East Seminar

The Ravaging of Arab Statehood and the Renewal of Resistance: Lessons from Jordan and Lebanon Speaker Rami Khouri, Journalist, media analyst, and author; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Arab Center Washington, DC; Founding Director and Distinguished Public...

Teaching to Entrench: Education, Fragmentation, and Yemen’s Next Decade Speaker Stacey Philbrick Yadav, The Joseph P. DiGangi Professor of International Relations, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Contact Liz Flanagan eaf073@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored...

Deeper Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel Today Speaker Dov Waxman, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Contact Liz Flanagan eaf073@fas.harvard.edu...

China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East Speaker Gangzheng She, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Director, Center for Overseas Security; Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua...

Human Rights Claims, Denials, and the Challenge of Conspiracism: Insights from Israel and Northern Ireland Speaker Ron Dudai, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University; Visiting Fellow, Mitchell Institute for...

Can Democracy Save Israel and Palestine Speaker Dahlia Scheindlin, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science and Penn Global, University of Pennsylvania. Discussant Derek Penslar, Faculty Associate. William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History...

The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law Speaker Adam Baczko, Research Associate Professor, CNRS, SciencesPo. Discussant Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University. Contact Liz Flanagan eaf073@fas.harvard.edu Bio I am a...

"Uprisings in Competitive Regimes: Protest and Political Change in Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan" Speakers: Chantal Berman, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Government...

“Syria-Turkey-and the Kurds: Prospects for Peace in the Future” Speaker: Amy Holmes, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University. Discussant: Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; Fellow, Institute for...

"The Political Economy of Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism" Speaker: Steffen Hertog, Associate Professor, Department of Government, London School of Economics. Discussant: Steven Heydemann, Janet W. Ketcham 1953 Professor of Middle East Studies...