 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 Featuring... 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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 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 Featuring... 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).  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 Featuring... 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.  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 Featuring... 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.  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 Featuring... 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  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 Featuring... 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.  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 Featuring... 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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