Past Events
The Kidron Valley/Wadi Nar Master Plan: Seeking Environmental Dignity through Collective Action
Wednesday, 4/9/2014, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
The Kidron Valley, which stretches from East Jerusalem through the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea, has been ravaged by years of unchecked development and neglect, creating an environmental disaster affecting residents on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide with major environmental, health and economic consequences.
Sayed Kashua: Seriously Satirical
Tuesday, 4/8/2014, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Please join us for a discussion with Kashua, who will screen a recent episode of his popular series Arab Labor (Avoda Aravit), now in its third season. Following the screening Kashua will discuss his life and work in an audience Q&A.
Delimiting Sinai and Constructing Aswan: Naturalizing Egypt’s Frontiers
Monday, 4/7/2014, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Perhaps more than other nation state, Egypt has been defined, since antiquity, from its geographical center—the strip of cultivatable land along the Nile River.
Baghdad Central: Occupation Noir
Thursday, 4/3/2014, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Please join us to hear fiction author and Georgetown Professor of Arabic Literature Elliott Colla discuss his latest book, Baghdad Central, with GW History Professor Dina Khouri.
The Second Arab Awakening & the Battle for Pluralism
Wednesday, 4/2/2014, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Marwan Muasher discusses his new book, The Second Arab Awakening & the Battle for Pluralism, which focuses on political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first “Awakening” in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when—if the dream is realized—a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge.
Tuesday, 3/25/2014, 12:30pm - 3:00pm
ANERA Education Program Manager Sulieman Mleahat talks about the challenges to early childhood development for Palestinian children and strategies for improvement in the areas of teacher training, curriculum development, school infrastructure, literacy, parenting, and health & nutrition.
A Window into Women of the Arab Spring: Progress or Reversals?
Monday, 3/24/2014, 9:00am - 12:00pm
As part of Women's History Month, GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication and the Institute for Middle East Studies will host a panel discussion to examine the complex question of how women have fared since the promising beginning of the Arab Spring three years ago.
Thursday, 3/20/2014, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Professor Amar's research, publishing and teaching focus on the areas of state institutions, security regimes, social movements, and democratic transitions in the Middle East and Latin America, and trace the origins and intersections of new patterns of police militarization, security governance, race/sexuality politics, humanitarian intervention, and state restructuring in the megacities of the global south.
Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East
Tuesday, 3/18/2014, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Join IMES for a discussion regarding the 2011 Arab Spring with Elizabeth Thompson.
Monday, 3/17/2014, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Join POMEPS for a discussion of political Islam, youth politics, and the Tunisian constitution featuring Monica Marks with comments by William Lawrence.
Tuesday, 3/4/2014, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Using the world’s most advanced 3D and IMAX film technology, JERUSALEM brings to audiences spectacular, never-before-seen footage of this much-loved 5,000-year-old city.
Kuwait Chair Lecture with Ambassador Edward “Skip” Gnehm
Thursday, 2/27/2014, 6:30pm - 7:45pm
2014 seems a long way from 2011 and the popular uprisings that toppled governments. What happened to the aspirations and expectations of those heady days?
China in the Middle East: An Expanding Footprint
Friday, 2/14/2014, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
While the U.S. has been the dominant influence in the Middle East for the last 60 years, China's role has been more muted and less visible.
The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
Monday, 2/10/2014, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham will discuss her recent release The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement.
Thursday, 1/23/2014, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Join POMEPS on January 23, 2014 to analyze the state of Islamist politics in the Middle East.
Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s India Diaspora
Thursday, 1/16/2014, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Although the legal status of foreign residents in the UAE defines them as outsiders, Dr. Vora argues that Indians in Dubai are integral to the building and maintenance of Emirati state institutions, to national identity and citizenship, and to the functioning of Dubai’s liberalized and globalized market forms.
Difference and Repetition: Transnational Muslim Women, Islamic Da’wa and Cosmopolitanism in Kuwait
Tuesday, 12/3/2013, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Popular accounts of the Arabian Peninsula often gloss the region as 'Wahabbi', or depict it as a space of intractable sectarian conflict.
Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
Thursday, 11/21/2013, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Dr. Amaney Jamal will be discussing her most recent book Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
Phantom Sovereign: The Bureaucracy of the Occupation in the West Bank 2002-2006
Wednesday, 11/20/2013, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Yael Berda (Princeton University, PhD Student) will discuss the practices of the bureaucratic apparatus that controls the movement of Palestinian workers between Israel and the West Bank, situating her analysis within colonial histories of population management.
Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
Thursday, 11/14/2013, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Dr. Atia will discuss her new book Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt.