The Middle East Institute - Columbia University. Thursday, January 2. He will also address the question of what it means to be. Muslim minority in a non- Islamic Asian country in the modern period. He received his Ph. D from UCLA and has taught at. Boston University, Rutgers University, and Ben- Gurion University in. Israel. The author of numerous articles on Muslims in China, his most. The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of. Muslims in Late Imperial China. Thursday, February 2. Nadia Abu El- Haj will address an aspect of that work: who is a Jew at any moment in time, and what is the nature of kinship both within the (known) Jewish world and between Jews and non- Jewish populations, Arabs in particular, in these different scientific practices and social epochs. She received her Ph. D from Duke University and taught at the University of Chicago before moving to Columbia. Among her many publications is Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self- Fashioning in Israeli Society (2. Professional Studies Program (PSP) The PSP is an intensive program designed to immerse dancers in the Humphrey/Limon legacy. The nine-month program runs from.Soner Cagaptay. Director, Turkish Research Program. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Room 1. 51. 2, International Affairs Building. After intense negotiations and missed deadlines, Turkey has begun accession talks with the European Union- -a milestone in its two- century quest to become a full- fledged member of the Western world. Cagaptay will analyze the dramatic transformation of Turkey under the ruling Justice and Development Party and comment on the unprecedented impediments on the path toward Turkey’s EU membership. He has written extensively on U. S.- Turkish relations and Turkish politics and nationalism, publishing in Middle East Quarterly, Middle Eastern Studies, and Nations and Nationalism. North Island College on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. NIC ensures relevant learning through accessible, quality education and teaches academic. His commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and La Stampa, and he appears regularly on CNN, Fox News, NPR, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, and al- Hurra. He also serves as chair of the Turkey Advanced Area Studies Program at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. David Cuthell examines Turkey's bid to join the EU from a new perspective, focusing on key aspects of EU- Turkey relations often neglected in mainstream commentary, such as labor demographics, regional security, and European economic and trade policy. He lived in Turkey during the 1. Yale University, and received an MBA from Columbia. He worked on Wall Street for 2. Columbia, where he completed his Ph.
D in 2. 00. 4. The premises of literary history make it difficult to analyze literary traditions that transcend national, linguistic, religious, and generic boundaries. Although comparisons and relations between Hebrew and Arabic, between poetry and philosophy, have been examined by many scholars, attempts to map the larger boundaries that link, separate, and make sense of the rhetorical difficulties involved remain rare. Gil Anidjar will offer a sketch of what such a map might look like and provide elements of a solution, if not resolution. He is the author of Our Place in Al- Andalus: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (2. The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (2. Wednesday, February 2. It is here that the best- known fairytales of the West are enacted in the captivating film . Everyday people happen to meet Little Red Riding Hood, the Pied Piper, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella, and all tales are interconnected- -a single murder, for example, can change the lives of not only the murderer and the victim, but those of many other people. The most insignificant and unconscious act can have awesome consequences. If so, bring your questions and come hear your fellow students share their experiences studying Middle East languages at programs in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Yemen, the United States, and more! In analyzing the hoax, Uri Cohen examines some of the cultural complexities shaping the colonial question in Israel. He received his Ph. D from Hebrew University and specializes in modern Hebrew and Italian literature. In light of its. electoral victory, will Hamas change its position on peace talks with. Israel? Will Hamas be able to form a working government? What do the. election results mean for Israeli- Palestinian relations, and for. Palestinian Authority, the U. S., and Europe? Nada Al- Nashif. Chief of the Regional Programme Division at the. UNDP/Regional Bureau for Arab States. Wednesday, March 2. PMRoom 1. 50. 1, International Affairs Building, Columbia University. Nada Al- Nashif was appointed Chief of the Regional Programme. Division, Regional Bureau for Arab States, UNDP, in January 2. She is. responsible for six UNDP programmes in the Arab region, focusing on. HIV/AIDS. and the Arab Human Development Report series. Nada joined the Bureau. Headquarters from the Lebanon Country Office where she held the position. Deputy Resident Representative since June 2. Nada joined UNDP. Management Training Programme in 1. Masters in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University. She had earlier completed a BA in Philosophy. Politics and Economics (PPE) from Balliol College, Oxford University. Kishwar Rizvi will explore the way in which young artists in Pakistan, and likewise in the Middle East, . She received her Ph. D in architecture from MIT, has taught at the College of the Holy Cross and Yale University, and focuses her research interests on architectural history, Islamic art, and Iranian studies. Her poems and short stories were published in several Iranian periodicals prior to her escape from Iran in 1. Her novels include At the Wall of the Almighty, The Bathhouse, and Against Gravity. Among the many literary awards she has received are the Barthelme Memorial Fellowship, the Barbara Deming Fiction for Peace and Social Justice, two Black Heron Press Awards for Social Fiction, and the Valiente Award of Voices Breaking Boundaries. He received his doctorate from Oxford University and specializes in post- colonial theory. He is the author of the forthcoming article Towards Liberation: Michel Khleifi's Ma'loul and Canticle in Palestinian Cinema. Although some lessening of. Khatami, moderate voices were. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June, 2. What is. behind the Iran- U. S. What is Iran’s nuclear policy? He has been a Fulbright scholar at Princeton and Cornell. Universities of Chicago, Melbourne, Munich. Waseda (Tokyo). In the late 1. Iranian universities on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. They include Mustafa . Entry is free of charge, and open to general public. Her experience in the frontlines and interactions with soldiers and civilians from both sides provide her a valuable on- the- ground perspective. She will comment on the implications of these media constraints on U. S. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is currently on leave from CNN where she has been Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Baghdad Correspondent. Arraf joined CNN in 1. Baghdad Baghdad Bureau Chief and was for several years the only Western correspondent based in Iraq. She has covered Iraq through crisis, sanctions, and the continuing war. She moved to Istanbul, Turkey as CNN Bureau Chief in 2. Baghdad as Bureau Chief in 2. She also served as Reuters Bureau Chief in Jordan from 1. Reuters correspondent in Montreal and Reuters correspondent/desk editor in New York and Washington D. C. Arraf reported extensively from Iraq for Reuters after the 1. Gulf War. Other reporting assignments included India, Haiti and Bosnia. The film includes commentary from renowned scholars from France, the United States and Iran, and has received wide acclaim throughout the United States and Europe. Why was. 2. 00. 5 different? And will all future Egyptian elections feature judicial. Mona El- Ghobashy will. Egyptian elections, exploring the dynamic relationship. Egypt. Her work on Egyptian politics has been published in the. International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Transparency. International's Global Corruption Report 2. Gordon will be speaking on the planning, buildup, and initial execution of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His new book, written with retired Marine Lt General Bernard Trainor, is well on its way to becoming the authoritative history of the lead- up to U. S. Who were the players and what were their views and decisions? How did plans translate into actions in the Area of Operations, and what were the results on the ground? Please join us for a very well informed analysis. Gordon will sign copies of his book. He is also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, program and departments working on development issues. Dervis was a member of the Turkish Parliament representing Istanbul (Nov 2. June 2. 00. 5) and was Minister for Economic Affairs and the Treasury (Mar 2. Aug 2. 00. 2) responsible for Turkey's recovery program after the devastating financial crisis that hit the country in February 2. From 1. 97. 3 to 1. Middle East Technical University and then Princeton University. In 1. 97. 7 he joined the World Bank, where he worked until he returned to Turkey in 2. He is appointed by the Secretary- General and confirmed by the General Assembly for a term of four years. Religion and Politics in the Muslim World. Some observers have re- invented the term . Ousmane Kane will discuss several notions: that Islamism is a new phenomenon, that . He received his master's in Islamic studies at the Sorbonne nouvelle in 1. Ph. D from Sciences Po, Paris, in 1. He received fellowships from Yale, the University of London, Northwestern University, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. He is the author of Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria (2. Intellectuels non europhones (2. Islam et islamisme au Sud du Sahara (with Jean- Louis Triaud, 1.
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