TRI Lunchtime Lectures
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism
Steffen Hertog, London School of Economics and Political Science
April 19, 2023
Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
Adam Mestyan, Associate Professor of History at Duke University
April 11, 2023
China’s New Role in the Gulf: the Iranian-Saudi Agreement
Mohammed Khalid Alyahya, Harvard Kennedy School
April 6, 2023
Iraq against the World: Saddam, America, and the post-Cold War Order
Samuel Helfont, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California
April 4, 2023
Reflections on the Gulf War: Three Decades Later
Shaykh Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (“KPC”)
Feb 28, 2023
From Pawns to Global Powers: The Nations of the Middle East Strike Back
Charles “Chas” Freeman, Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
February 14, 2023
Book Talk: The Dictatorship Syndrome
Alaa Al Aswany
February 9, 2023
The Age of Political Jihadism: The Case of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Aaron Zelin, Brandeis University
February 7, 2023
Assessing Higher Education in the Middle East
John Waterbury, Princeton University
Jan 31, 2023
What’s in a Name: The Lasting Legacy of Slavery on Public Lives in the Sultanate of Oman
Amal Sachedina, Princeton University
Dec 6, 2022
Reflections on a Career in the Diplomatic and Political Trenches of the Arab World
Ghassan Salamé, Sciences-Po (Paris)
Nov 29, 2022
Blueprints of Change: Organized Labor and Revolutionary Constitution-Making in Tunisia
Tyson Patros, Princeton University
Nov 15, 2022
Is Democracy in the Arab World a Trap? Reflections on the Arab Spring and the Case of Tunisia
Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, Former Prime Minister of Tunisia and fellow at Harvard University
Nov 10, 2022
Arian Sharifi, Princeton University
Nov 1, 2022
Everyday Life in the "Spectacular" City: Making Home in Dubai
Rana AlMutawa, NYU Abu Dhabi
Oct 25, 2022
The US Government’s Formulation of Middle East Policies: An Insider’s Perspective
Col. Joel Rayburn, Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Oct 11, 2022
The Sassoons: The Global Merchants and the Making of a Dynasty
Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University
Oct 6, 2022
The Impact of the Attack in Benghazi and the War in Libya on American Domestic and Foreign Politics
Ethan Chorin, Director, Perim Associates
Sept 27, 2022
Asfuriyyeh : A History of Madness, Modernity and War in the Middle East
Joelle Abi Rached, Harvard University
Sept 20, 2022
Degrade and Destroy: How the U.S. Defeated the Islamic State?
Michael Gordon, The Wall Street Journal
Sept 13, 2022
Has Political Islam in Turkey been Terminated by the AKP?
Soli Ozel, Istanbul Kadir Has Unviersity and Institut Montaigne, Paris
Sept 6, 2022
The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relation
Apr 21, 2022
Dr. Alda Benjamen, University of California, Berkeley
April 7, 2022
Emma Aubin-Boltanski, National centre for Scientific Research, France
March 31, 2022
The Erdogan Era in Turkey and Its Legacy
Soner Cagaptay, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, DC
March 15, 2022
The Evolution of Repressive Policing in Algeria
Merouan Mekouar, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada
February 24, 2022
Afghanistan - The anatomy of America's Withdrawal
Steve Coll, Columbia University; Writer at New Yorker
February 17, 2022
The Complications of Telling the Story of 9/11
Clifford Chanin, Executive Vice president and Deputy Director for museum programs at 9/11 Memorial Museum
February 3, 2022
Iraq's 21st-Century Challenges And How They Can Be Addressed
Ambassador Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador to the United States
January 27, 2022
Lebanon’s Economic Collapse and Outside Intervention
Michael Young, senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut
November 30, 2021
The Roads not Taken: Policy versus National Interest in the Palestinian Israeli Conflict
Dr. Matti Steinberg Former lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and senior advisor to the government of Israel
November 18, 2021
War By Law : The Taliban Courts In Afghanistan
Adam Baczko, Paris
November 16, 2021
Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University
November 9, 2021
Abdallah Azzam and the origins of global jihadism
Thomas Hegghammer, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
November 2, 2021
Dr. Dania Koleilat Khatib Co-founder and President, Research Center for Cooperation and Peace Building, Lebanon
November 4, 2021
The Apolcalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism
Suzanne Schneider, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
October 26, 2021
The Crisis in Afghanistan: America’s Involvement and the Implications of its Imminent Withdrawal
Saad Mohseni, MOBY Group
May 13, 2021
The Past and Future of the Iraqi City of Mosul
Rasha Al Aqeedi, Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy
April 20, 2021
Ulrike Freitag, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and Freie Universität Berlin
April 15, 2021
The History of Jihadism in Europe and its Evolution, 1989-2021
Hugo J. Micheron, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
April 13, 2021
The Iranian Revolution: A Precursor to Worldwide Populism?
Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University
April 7, 2021
Politics at the Periphery: Local Governance and Regime Consolidation in Postwar Lebanon
Christiana M. Parreira, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
March 31, 2021
Global Jihad and Movements of Rage
Glenn E. Robinson, author and associate professor, Naval Postgraduate School
February 9, 2021
Humor and Social Mobilization in the Maghrib: The Case of Algeria
Elizabeth M. Perego, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
November 17, 2020
Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East: A UAE Perspective
Her Excellency Mrs. Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations. Non-Resident Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Grenada
October 27, 2020
The Challenges of Conflict Resolution in the Middle East
Ghassan Salamé, professor emeritus, Sciences-Po, Paris
September 10, 2020
Lebanon: A Tale of Three Explosions
Nadim Shehadi, Lebanese American University, New York Headquarters and Academic Center
September 3, 2020
The Forgotten War: Yemen’s Regional Crisis in the Midst of a Global Pandemic
Asher Orkaby, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Princeton University
May 12, 2020
Tangoing with the Ummah: Malaysia’s Quest for Leadership in the Muslim World
Mohamed Nawab Osman, University of California-Berkeley
February 27, 2020
Death and Remembrance in Pre-Islamic Arabia
Ahmad Al-Jallad, The Ohio State University
November 25, 2019
Dynamics of Change in a Turbulent Middle East: Challenges for US Policy
Paul Salem, The Middle East Institute
November 5, 2019
Theological Humor in Eighteenth-Century Yemen
Mark Wagner, Louisiana State University
April 3, 2019
Is Saudia Arabia a City of Salt?
Peter Theroux, writer and translator
March 26, 2019
Kerstin Hünefeld, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (UPenn)
March 12, 2019
The Islamic Republic 1979–2018: From Theocracy to Military Dictatorship
Ali Alfoneh, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW)
February 27, 2019