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Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: From Dictatorship to Constituent Assembly: What Comes After the October Elections in Tunisia

11/21/2011

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November 21, 2011 @ 12:00pm
Research Hall 162
George Mason University 
Fairfax, Virginia

Presented by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program

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Dr. Douja Mamelouk
 was born in Tunis, Tunisia.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French Literature from Willamette University, Salem Oregon (1998), a Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University in Cairo (2000) and a certificate in Sustainable Development from the University of the Middle East in Casablanca, Morocco (2000).  She received her Ph.D. in Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics from Georgetown University (2010).  She has taught at Georgetown University, Catholic University and the George Washington University, all in the District of Columbia.  Douja is currently an Assistant Professor of Arabic and French Literature at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: The People Want: Travels of a Slogan

11/17/2011

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November 17, 2011 @ 12:00pm
Research Hall 162
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Presented by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program  

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Elliott Colla is chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine, and author of Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity (Duke University Press, 2007), and translator of works of contemporary Arabic literature, including Ibrahim Aslan'’s novel, The Heron, Idris Ali’'s Poor, and Ibrahim al-Koni's Gold Dust, as well as works by Yahya al-Tahir ‘Abdallah, Ghada Abdel Meniem and others. He is currently translating The Animists, al-Koni's epic of the Sahara, and Rabai al-Madhoun's The Lady from Tel Aviv (Telegram Books, 2012).
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Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: Elite Cohesion and Social Heterogeneity: Syria and the Arab Uprisings

11/15/2011

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November 15, 2011 @ 4:30pm
David King Hall 1006
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Presented by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program 

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Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Forthcoming, 2011, Stanford University Press). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal a peer-reviewed research publication and is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film,  About Baghdad, and director of a critically acclaimed film series on Arabs and Terrorism, based on extensive field research/interviews. He recently directed a film on Arab/Muslim immigrants in Europe, titled The "Other" Threat. Bassam also serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report and is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Program for Good Governance and Political Reform in the Arab World.
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Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: Political Struggle in Yemen: Historical Conditions and Contemporary Developments

11/14/2011

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November 14, 2011 @ 12:00pm
Research Hall 161
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Presented by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program 

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John Warner is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at City University of New York's Graduate Center. His research centers on the commodification of nature and resource politics in Yemen and the Middle East. He is a founding editor and author of the Findings collective for Anthropology Now, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to public engagement with anthropological knowledge. He is also a member of the Quilting Point film collective.
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Film Workshop Series: Politics and Poetics: Arab Art & Culture as a Form of Resistance

11/9/2011

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November 9, 2011
Mason Hall, Edwin Meese Room, III
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Presented by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program, Global Islamic studies and Middle East Etc. Film Club 

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Zein El-Amine has a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Maryland and teaches Global Literature and Social Change at the University of Maryland. Zein leads annual literary study abroad trips to Egypt and Ireland. He is also one of the founding members of the award-winning trade magazine Left Turn, published in New York. He is a published poet and writer and was one of the translators for the Sundance Film Festival-nominated documentary Sling Shot Hip Hop
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Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: Protests, Regime Strategies, & Political Stability in Jordan

11/8/2011

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November 8, 2011 @ 12:00pm
Research Hall 161
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Presented by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program 

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Ziad Abu-Rish is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He currently serves as the Graduate Student Representative to the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Ziad is Co-Editor of JadaliyyaEzine. More of his Jadaliyya articles can be foundhere and here.
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Saddam Hussein's Iraq: Inside the Dictator's Ba'th Party Rule

11/2/2011

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November 2, 2011 
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Presented by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies Program, and the Working Group on Displaced Populations
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Joseph Sassoon


A talk by leading scholar Joseph Sassoon, whose latest book focuses on the intricacies of Saddam Hussein's iron grip over Iraq.

The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of an extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers, and how the system of rewards functioned. Saddam Hussein's authority was dominant. His decision was final, whether arbitrating the promotion of a junior official or the death of a rival or a member of his family.
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      • The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization
      • Tunisia: A Political Economy in Transition
      • Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey
      • Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
      • 2016 Political Economy Institute
    • The Lebanon Project >
      • Research Working Group: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958 >
        • Inaugural Workshop: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958
      • Lebanon Dissertation Summer Institute
    • The Palestine Project >
      • Gaza in Context Film
      • Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice in Palestine
      • Audio Content
    • The Civil Society Project >
      • Exploring an Agenda on Active Citizenship
      • NGOs in the Arab World Post-Arab Uprisings
      • Academia & Social Justice
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      • Journalism Against the Grain
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      • Towards a Cultural Cartography
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