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Vision and Implementation: The Political Economy of Development in the GCC
Jessie Moritz
Postdoctoral Research Associate, TRI
Tuesday, April 10, Noon
102 Jones Hall
Sectarianism and Conflict in the Middle East
Hanin Ghaddar
Washington institute for Near East Policy
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Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Thursday, April 12, 12:30 PM
Aaron Burr Hall, room 219
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Can the “Outside-In” Approach Get the “Ultimate Deal” Done?
Salam Fayyad
Visiting Senior Scholar and Daniella Lipper Coules '95 Distinguished Visitor in Foreign Affairs, WWS
Tuesday, February 27 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Jihadi Culture: the Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists
Thomas Hegghammer
Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo
Robyn Creswell
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, and poetry editor of The Paris Review
Bernard Haykel
Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 12 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Diplomatic Front Lines: Syria and Iraq under Bush and Obama
Ambassador Ryan Crocker
Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School
Executive Professor at Texas A&M University
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 12 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Royal Revolution in Saudi Arabia
Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi journalist, columnist, and author
Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 12 Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Journalism and Gender in the Contemporary Middle East: Reporting on Women’s Issues in Authoritarian Contexts
Katherine Zoepf
Journalist and author of "Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who are Transforming the Arab World"
Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 12 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad
Mouaz Moustafa, Executive Director
Syrian Emergency Task Force
Mazen Al Hummada
Activist & Torture Victim
Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 12 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Saudi Arabia: From Defense to Offense but How to Score?
Karen Elliott House
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 12 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West
Gilles Kepel
Paris Institute for Political Science, SciencesPo
Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 12 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Visions from Abroad: Historical and Contemporary Representations of Saudi Arabia
Mona Khazindar
Cultural Advisor to the President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities
Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 12 Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Loving (and Hating) for the Sake of God in Salafi Islam
Daniel Lav
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Transregional Institute, Princeton University
Wednesday, April 26, Noon
102 Jones Hall
Nadia’s Story: Yazidi Genocide and ISIS Crimes Against Ethno-Religious Minorities in Iraq and Syria
Nadia Murad
Human Rights Activist
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
McCosh Hall, Room 50; 6:00 pm
Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis: A Syrian Civil Society Perspective
Massa Mufti-Hamwi
Co-founder and Chair
Sonbola Group for Education & Development
Friday, April 7, Noon
102 Jones Hall
The Dawn of Printing in the Middle East -- Hurdles and Practice
Ami Ayalon
Professor Emeritus of Modern Middle Eastern History
Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
12:00 noon, 202 Jones Hall
“Partners in the United Nation”: Islamist Attitudes towards Coptic Egyptians in Post-Revolutionary Egypt (2011-2013)
Anna Hager
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Tuesday, December 6
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Violence against Women as a Social Determinant of Health: The Case of Saudi Arabia
Hala Aldosari
Visiting Scholar
The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
Thursday, November 17
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Syria’s Crucible and Lebanon’s Potential Future
Joseph Bahout
Visiting Scholar, Middle East Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Thursday, November 10
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
The Role of Shiite Militias and Iran’s Policies in the Middle East
Hanin Ghaddar
Inaugural Friedmann Visiting Fellow
The Washington Institute
Tuesday, October 25
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
How is the Syrian Regime Constituted? The Enigma of a Security State
Daniel Gerlach and Naseef Naeem
Zenith Council, Berlin
Friday, October 14
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Moderation, Radicalization or Both? The Trials and Tribulations of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
Joas Wagemakers
Assistant Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University
Tuesday, October 4
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
The Roman, Jewish and Christian Past of the Maghreb: Colonial Legacy or National Heritage?
Slimane Zeghidour
Senior Editor at TV 5 Monde, France
Tuesday, April 12
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Reflections on “the State” in Arabia
Michael Crawford
Former Senior British Foreign Service Officer
Tuesday, April 5
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
The Current State of Egyptian Islamism
Samuel Tadros
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom
Tuesday, September 22
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
The Copts of Egypt: A Community under Siege
Samuel Tadros
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom
Monday, September 21
4:30 pm, 102 Jones Hall
The Arab Exception?
Max Rodenbeck
Middle East Bureau Chief
The Economist
Tuesday, March 31
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Politics of identity or language policies? From Erdogan to Atatürk
Emmanuel Szurek
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Insitute of Transregional Studies, Princeton University
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
ISIS – Daesh Now: Notes from the Underground
Sadik J. Al-Azm
Visiting Fellow, TRI
Tuesday, March 3
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Syria: Snapshots of History in the Making
(Syria, 2014, 53”)
The Abounaddara Film Collective
Screening and discussion with Charif Kiwan
Founder of Abounaddara
Monday, February 16, 2015
7:00 pm, 100 Jones Hall
Ibn Taymiyya as a Philosopher in Contemporary Islamic Discourses
Prof. Dr. Georges Tamer
Lehrstuhl für Orientalische Philologie und Islamwissenschaft
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Sectarian Apocalypse: The Syrian Civil War Explained by Islamic Prophecies of the End Times
William McCants
Director, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World
The Brookings Institution
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
The Political Islam Problem: Is the Middle East Exceptional?
Shadi Hamid
Fellow, Project on U.S.-Islamic World Relations
Saban Center for Middle East Policy
The Brookings Institution
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
The Israel-Hamas Conflict and Palestinian National Reconciliation
Hussein Ibish
Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
12:00 noon, 202 Jones Hall
Family Trees, Ancestor Shrines, and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Arab Gulf
Nadav Samin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
SSRC-Princeton University
Wednesday, April 23
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Identity in a Global Era
Amin Maalouf
Novelist and member of the Académie française
Wednesday, April 9
4:30 PM, 100 Jones Hall
Muslim Jurists, the Modern Nation State, and Fatwas in a Time of Revolution
Mu'taz Alkhatib
Producer, Al-Jazeera’s “Sharia and Life” Program
Thursday, February 27
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Trouble and Strife: Resolving Decades of Conflict over the Sovereignty of the Western Sahara
Samir Bennis
Co-founder/Editor-in-Chief
Morocco World News
Thursday, February 20
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Syria in Revolt
Sadik Jalal al-Azm
Visiting Scholar
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
4:30 pm, 100 Jones Hall
The Ottoman Dynasty's Legal Claims and the Rise of the Imperial State Madhhab
Guy Burak
The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian
Bobst Library, New York University
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
12:00 noon, 102 Jones Hall
Syria, What's Next?
Joshua Landis
Director for the Center of Middle East Studies and
Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall
The Arab Uprisings and the Persistence of the Old Order
Hisham Melhem
Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Arabiya Television
Correspondent of Beirut's Al-Nahar Newspaper
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Cronyism in Egypt
Ishac Diwan
Lecturer on Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Syria: from uprising to regional conflict? The Explosive Interplay of Local Dynamics and Regional Politics
Emile Hokayem
Senior Fellow for Regional Security
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Thursday, October 24, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East
Eckart Woertz
Senior researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall
In the Shadow of the Syrian War: Sectarianism in the Arab Gulf States
Frederic Wehrey
Senior Associate in the
Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Syria, the United States, and the Future of the Middle East
Jon Alterman
Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Director,
Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
4:30 PM
100 Jones Hall
The Evolution of Intellectual Production in the pre-Ottoman Middle East: Empirical Evidence from Hajji Khalifa's Kashf al-Zunun
Eric Chaney
Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Arab Businesses and the Revolution
Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar and The Transregional Institute
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:30 PM
100 Jones Hall
Offshore Citizenship: A Market Solution to the "Problem" of Migrant Incorporation
Noora Anwar Lori
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Harvard University
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Expat/Expert Camps: Toward a New Ethnography of Gulf Labor Migration
Neha Vora
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Lafayette College
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Resource Blessed: the GCC Development Experience
Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar and the Transregional Institute
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Is There a Conception of the Political in Sunni Fiqh? A Bottom-Up Perspective
Mohammad Fadel
Associate Professor of Law
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
4:30 PM
100 Jones Hall
On Autocracy and the Transition Towards Democracy in the Arab Region
Samir Makdisi
Professor Emeritus, American University of Beirut
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
4:30 PM
100 Jones Hall
Islam and Exile in the 18th Century Indian Ocean
Michael Laffan
Professor of History
Princeton University
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Talk Therapy - Yemen, the National Dialogue and Prospects for Transition
Barbara Bodine
Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, WWS
Director, Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Sufis and Politicians in Sixteenth Century Egypt
Adam Sabra
Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Bombay Parsis and the Rediscovery of Ancient Iran, 1850-1900
Daniel Sheffield
Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Debating Women's Mosque Access in Sixteenth-Century Mecca
Marion Katz
Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies
New York University
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Military Monolith or Subcontractor State? The Politics of Privatization in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Kevan Harris
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Hezbollah Facing the Lebanese State: a Special Case of Political Islam (1982-2012)
Aurélie Daher
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Transregional Institute, Princeton University
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
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A Familiar Presence: Muslims in Europe (16th-18th Century)
Lucette Valensi
Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Turkish Foreign Policy: The Promise and Peril of Neo-Ottomanism
Michael Reynolds
Associate Professor Near Eastern Studies
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
The Cultural Politics of the Syrian Revolution
Max Weiss
Assistant Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
Rightsizing America's Role in the Middle East
Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer
S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall
The Gulf States' Response to the Arab Spring Uprisings
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Columnist from the United Arab Emirates
Monday, November 5, 2012
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall
Azerbaijan: Crossroads of a Region in Flux
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov
Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
12:00
202 Jones Hall
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Of Empires and Citizens: Pro American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
Amaney Jamal
Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Workshop on Arab Political Development at Princeton University
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:00
202 Jones Hall
The Arab Spring and the New Arab Public Sphere
Marc Lynch
Associate Professor of political science and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
12:00
202 Jones Hall
If Rice were a Man: Twelver and Ismaili Reception of an early Shi’i Hadith
Samer Traboulsi
Associate Professor of History of the Middle East and the Muslim World at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Research Fellow at TRI, Princeton University
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
12:00
202 Jones Hall
A Woman in the Crossfire
Samar Yazbek
Novelist, journalist and author of “A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution”
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Syria: State of Barbarism
Bernard Haykel
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Princeton University
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
12:00
202 Jones Hall
The Struggle for Syria Revisited
April 25, 2012, 12:00
102 Jones Hall
Carol Hakim
Visiting Associate Research Scholar
Princeton University
Political Economy of Arab Revolutions: Analysis and Prospects for North-African Countries
April 18, 2012, Noon
102 Jones Hall
Elias Mouhoub Mouhoud
Professor of Economics
Université Paris Dauphine
Will Economics Derail the Arab Spring: the Case of Tunisia
April 17, 2012, 12:00 p.m.
Jones 102
Francis Ghilès
Senior Research Fellow
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
The Redirection of Saudi Aramco's Investment Strategy and Its Global Implications
April 12, 2012, 12:00
102 Jones Hall
Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar
The Military and the Arab Springs
March 29, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Jones 100
Robert Springborg
Department of National Security Affairs
Naval Postgraduate School
Economic Challenges Facing Egypt’s New Order
March 28, 2012, 12:00 p.m.
102 Jones Hall
Robert Springborg
Department of National Security Affairs
Naval Postgraduate School
Sudan after the Secession of the South: Missing Petrodollars and the Quest for an “Agricultural Renaissance"
March 14, 2012, 12:00 noon
Jones 102
Eckart Woertz
The Transregional Institute & Princeton Environmental Institute
Princeton University
Structural Inefficiencies of Islamic Courts: Ottoman Justice and Its Implications for Modern Economic Life
February 21, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Jones 100
Timur Kuran
Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies
Duke University
Lebanese-Syrian Relations in a Time of Revolution: Blurred Lines and Cross Purposes
February 15, 2012, 12:00 noon
Jones 102
Andrew Arsan
Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Seminar on "Whither the Arab State?"
January 11-13, 2012
Al-Ghat, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
co-sponsored with the Abdulrahman Al-Sudairy Foundation
Participants: Paul Salem, Gregory Gause, Nathan Brown, Asli Bali, Samer Shehata, Lisa Anderson, Abdulkhaleq Abdallah, Joshua Landis, Saud al-Sarhan, Marina Ottaway, Abdulwahid Humaid, Stephen Walt, Lama Al Sulaiman, Ziad Al-Sudairy, Bernard Haykel
Workshop on "Weak Dollar, Expensive Oil"
December 4, 2011
Participants: Muhammad Al Jasser, Governor of Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, Giacomo Luciani, Princeton Global Scholar, Ed Morse, Citi, Harold James, and others
From Popular Uprisings to Political Transition: Reflections on the Tunisian Revolution
November 22, 2011
100 Jones Hall, 5:00 PM
Malika Zeghal, Harvard University
Workshop on the Arab Spring Revolutions
November 18-19, 2011
Participants: Olivier Roy, Amaney Jamal, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Teije Donker, Virginie Collombier, Sari Hanafi, Marwa Daoudy, Rabab El Mahdi, Carol Hakim, Bernard Haykel
Lengthening Shadows: Implications of US Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan
November 15, 2011
102 Jones Hall, 12:00 Noon
Michael Barry, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
La transition démocratique en Tunisie, ses enjeux au miroir de la société civile
(lecture in French with live translation)
November 8, 2011
102 Jones Hall, 12:00 Noon
Abdelhamid Larguèche, Professor of History, University of Tunis-Manouba