Past Events
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.
Challenges of the Syrian Opposition
Thursday, 11/7/2013, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Join POMEPS for a critical analysis and discussion of the insurgency in Syria.
Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State
Monday, 11/4/2013, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Professor Robinson will discuss her new book.
Tuesday, 10/22/2013, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo.
Dissent and Revolution in the Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt
Tuesday, 10/22/2013, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
David Faris will discuss his new book Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt.
Thursday, 10/17/2013, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Yigal Kipnis in his new pathbreaking book: 1973: The Road to WarOpens in a new window draws on recently declassified information revealing diplomatic overtures involving Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Golda Meir and Anwar Sadat in the months preceding the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Tuesday, 10/15/2013, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
The Law in These Parts is an unprecedented exploration of the evolving and little-known legal framework that Israel has employed to administer its 40-year military occupation of the West Bank and, until 2005, the Gaza Strip.
Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t
Tuesday, 10/15/2013, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Toby Matthiesen will discuss his new book Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t.
Back to Business: How Socially Innovative Entrepreneurship Can Build the Middle East
Tuesday, 10/15/2013, 9:00am - 12:00pm
The past two years have witnessed a series of defining moments for the Middle East with key countries like Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia undergoing difficult political transitions.