Academic Year 2008-2009

Israel in the New Middle East
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 5:30PM
Cabot 702, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA
Speaker: Joel S. Migdal, Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Co-sponsored with the Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series
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The British Army, Counter-Insurgency and Strategy in Current Conflict
Wednesday, March 31, 2009, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th floor
Speaker: Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College, Oxford University
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Fact and Fiction in US-Iran Relations Before and After the Islamic Revolution: Lessons for Policy
February 11, 2009, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th floor
Speaker: Gholam R. Afkhami, Director of the Oral History Project, Foundation for Iranian Studies
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Malhamé – Malfamé: The Ambiguity of Empire in the Late Ottoman Levant
January 21, 2009, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th floor
Speaker: Jens Hanssen, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History, University of Toronto
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Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda
November 19, 2008, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: François Burgat, Director, Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO)
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Reflections on the Middle East in World Affairs
October 8, 2008, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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The Resurgence of Tribalism in the Middle East and the Implications for Democracy
September 17, 2008, 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
Speaker: Andrea B. Rugh, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, Washington DC
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