Academic Year 2005-2006

A Discussion with Khalid A. Al-Falih, Senior VP of Industrial Relations, Saudi Aramco
April 21, 2006, 11:30AM-1:00PM
Cabot International Center
Speaker: Khalid A. Al-Falih, Senior Vice President of Industrial Relations and Member of the  Board of Directors, Saudi Aramco. Part of the International Business Program Global Speakers Series, The Fletcher School

Religion, Politics, and Women in Iran: Edging Toward Democracy?
March 15, 2006, 6:00PM-9:00PM
Tisch Library, Tufts University
Speaker: Shahla Haeri, Director, Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Boston University
Documentary Screening: “Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran,” which focuses on six women—out of forty-seven—who nominated themselves as candidates for the 2001 parliamentary election in Iran. Their nomination is made possible by an ambiguous article in the Iranian Constitution, whose use of the nongender-specific term rejal-i siyasi (political elite) gives women the opportunity to give voice to their political aspirations.

The "Separation Barrier": Between The International Court of Justice 
March 6, 2006, 5:00PM-6:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th floor
Speaker: David Kretzmer, Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Visiting Scholar, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies; Visiting Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School.
David Kretzmer is the Bruce W. Wayne Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Currently, he is Visiting Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School and Visiting Scholar at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies. He specializes in constitutional law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. From 1995 to 2002, he served as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee. The author of many books and articles, his latest books include The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories and The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse (edited together with E. Klein).

American Foreign Policy and the Future of the Muslim World: Autocrats, Democrats, Terrorists?
November 30, 2005, 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.
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Iran's Nuclear Program
November 16, 2005, 5:00PM
ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center
Speaker: Thomas R. Pickering, Former U.S. Ambassador of the United States to to the United Nations and Senior Vice President of International Relations, Boeing
Inaugural Lecture of the Boston Forum on the Middle East
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IHow Far Can a Hegemon Go? Reflections on the U.S. Administration's Reform and Regime Change Agenda in the Middle East
October 6, 2005
Speaker: Michael Hudson, Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Professor of International Relations, and Seif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

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