Bodies of Revolution: Gender, the State, and Violence in the Arab Uprisings

8 September 2015 @ 6:00pm
Merten Hall 1202
George Mason University

Presented by the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University & the Arab Studies Institute

Free and open to the public



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Featuring...

Sherene Seikaly - University of California Santa Barbara

Sherene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of the Arab Studies Journal, and co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya e-zine. Seikaly's Men of Capital in Times of Scarcity: Economy in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and the body. 

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