Academic Year 2002-2003

The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories

April 15, 2003, 5:00 - 6:30PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: David Kretzmer, Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law
David Kretzmer is Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In recent years, he has concentrated his research on constitutional law and human rights. His most recent books include The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel and The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories. In addition to his academic activities, Kretzmer has been active in the protection and promotion of human rights. He was a founding member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and served as chairperson of its board. From 1995 to 2002, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee established under the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights. He served as vice-chairperson of the Committee from 2001 to 20002. Kretzmer is currently Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law.

Young New Leaders, Old Policies: Syria, Jordan, Morocco

April 9, 2003, 5:00-6:30PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 205
Speaker: Eberhard Kienle, Director of the Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM), Aix-en-Provence 

Eberhard Kienle is Director of the Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM) in Aix-en-Provence. He previously taught politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and served as chair of its Centre of Near and Middle East Studies. A specialist on the political economy, political sociology, and international relations of the Middle East, he has published A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt (2001); and Ba'th v. Ba'ath: The Conflict between Syria and Iraq, 1968 to 1989 (1990).

The Israeli-Palestinian Standoff and American Policy

March 26, 2003, 5:00-6:30PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: Henry Siegman, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Middle East Project, Council on Foreign Relations
Henry Siegman's academic interests include the Middle East peace process, Arab-Israeli relations, the U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and interreligious relations. His recent publications include Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions: Executive Summary, Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (1999) and U.S. Middle East Policy and the Peace Process, Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (1997).

The Myth of Monarchy in the Middle East

March 12, 2003, 5:00-6:30PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 205
Speaker: Peter Sluglett, Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of Utah

Peter Sluglett has been Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City since 1994 and was director of the university's Middle East Center between 1994 and 2000. He is currently Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, and he taught modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Durham, England between 1974 and 1993. His main research interests are twentieth-century Iraq and Syria, British and French colonialism in the Arab world, and the urban social history of the Middle East. His principal publications are (with Marion Farouk-Sluglett) Iraq since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship (2001) and The Times Guide to the Middle East: The Arab World and its Neighbours (1996); and Britain in Iraq, 1914-1932 (1976). He is currently writing a monograph on the economic and social history of Aleppo between 1880 and the end of the French mandate for Syria in 1946.

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Reflections on American Middle East Policy since 9/11

March 3, 2003, 5:00-6:30PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 205

Speaker: Eugene Rogan, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University

Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, and lectures in the modern history of the Middle East at Oxford University. He is an authority on the socio-economic history of the Arab provinces of the late Ottoman Empire and the Middle East in the twentieth century. Recent publications include Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East (2002), The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (with Avi Shlaim, 2001; French and Arabic editions, 2002); and Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire (1999), which is a winner of the Hourani and Köprülü prizes.

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Fighting Terrorism Effectively: Networks and Netwars

February 12, 2003, 5:00-6:30PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 206

Speaker: John O. Voll, Professor of Islamic History and Associate Directory of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University 

John O. Voll is a Professor of Islamic History and Associate Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He taught World and Middle Eastern History at the University of New Hampshire, and was past President of the Middle East Studies Association and of the New England Historical Association. He was a consultant on the recent PBS documentary, "Muhammad: The Legacy of a Prophet," and served on the panel for the National Research Council that produced the report Discouraging Terrorism: Some Implications of 9/11 (2002). He is co-author (with John Esposito) of Makers of Contemporary Islam (2001) and Islam and Democracy (1996); author of Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World (1994); and co-author (with Sarah Potts Voll) of The Sudan: Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural State (1985). He had done research on Islamic movements in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia as well as in the Middle East.
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New Perspectives on the Final Status Israeli-American-Palestinian Negotiations

February 3, 2003, 5:00-6:30PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor

Speaker: Menachem Klein, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University

Menachem Klein is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University and a senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. His research focuses on Palestine, the peace process and the question of Jerusalem, and politics in Egypt and Israel. He is the author, in English, of Jerusalem: The Contested City (2001); and, in Hebrew, of Doves over Jerusalem's Sky: The Peace Process and the City 1977-1999 (1999); Bar-Ilan: University between Religion and Politics (1997); and The Jerusalem Question in the Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiation: Arab Stands (1995).

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American Middle East Policy after September 11

December 2, 2002, 5:00PM

Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor

Speaker: William A. Rugh, President, AMIDEAST

William Rugh, who holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, was a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 30 years, during which time he served at embassies in six Arab countries, including as Ambassador of the United States to the United Arab Emirates (1992 to 1995) and Ambassador of the United States to Yemen (1984 to 1987). Since 1995, he has been President of AMIDEAST, an American non-profit organization. He is the author of The Arab Press: News Media and Political Process in the Arab World (1987); and of many articles on Middle Eastern subjects.

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Turkey after the Elections in 2002

November 6, 2002, 3:00-5:00PM

Cabot Intercultural Center

Speaker: Feroz Ahmad, Visiting Scholar, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Feroz Ahmad is Research Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Adjunct Professor of Diplomatic History at The Fletcher School. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies. Ahmad is an authority on twentieth-century Turkish history and politics. His publications include A Short History of Turkey (2003); Demokrasi Surecinde Turkiye: 1945-1980 (1994); The Making of Modern Turkey (1993); The Turkish Experiment in Democracy, 1950-1975 (1977); and The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-1914 (1969).

Post September 11: Islam and U.S. Foreign Policy

October 16, 2002, 5:00PM

ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center

Speaker: John L. Esposito, University Professor and Founding Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
John L. Esposito is University Professor and Founding Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. A past president of the Middle East Studies Association, he is the editor of the four-volume The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World and The Oxford History of Islam and the author of many monographs, including Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? and Islam: The Straight Path.

Israel: How Secular or Democratic Can a Jewish State Be?

September 25, 2002, 5:00PM

ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center
Speaker: S. Ilan Troen, Lopin Chair in Modern History, Ben-Gurion University of Negev

S. Ilan Troen holds the Lopin Chair in Modern History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and is currently the Stoll Chair in Israel Studies as Visiting Professor at Brandeis University from 2002 to 2003. He is founding editor of Israel Studies. His publications cover American urban history, Israeli social history, and the Suez-Sinai campaigns of 1956. His most recent works include Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement (forthcoming); and co-editor Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America (2001).

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