Participants:
The US in the Middle East
Chair: Beshara Doumani (History, Brown University)
Irene Gendzier (Politics, Boston University) ‘US Imperialism in the Middle East’
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (History, University of Pennsylvania) ‘US-Iranian Relations in Historical Perspective’
Ervand Abrahamian (History, CUNY) ‘The 1953 coup’
Cold War Imaginings
Chair: Michael Kennedy (Sociology and International Relations, Brown University)
Shiva Balaghi (Iranian Studies, Brown University) ‘Iran and the Cold War’
Naoko Shibusawa (History & American Studies, Brown University) ‘Cold War Orientalism’
Samah Selim (Rutgers University) ‘The Ghost of Nasser and Egypt’
Covering the Middle East: The Role of the Media
Chair: Shiva Balaghi (History, Brown University)
Malihe Razazan (KALW Public Radio),
Stephen Kinzer (Author and former New York Times correspondent. Visiting Fellow in International Studies, Watson Institute)