Dec 6, 2013
The US, Iran, and the Cold War: Global Perspectives of the 1953 Coup
9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Middle East Studies
Middle East Studies at Brown University promotes knowledge, understanding, and informed discussion about the Middle East, Islam, and Muslim societies through research, teaching, and public engagement.
Dec 4, 2013
Faiz Ahmed ─ The Ṣultānīs of Kabul: Ottoman Experts in Afghanistan, 1877-1923
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 19, 2013
Dorron Shiffer-Sebba '14 and Kyle Zurcher '14 ─ Israel on the Map
6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 15, 2013
Nov 14, 2013
Rabab El-Mahdi ─ Challenges to Democratization in the Arab Uprisings
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 8, 2013
Beyond Geopolitics: Syria From the Ground Up
11:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Rhode Island Hall 108, 60 George Street
Nov 6, 2013
Kevin DeJesus ─ Signifying Geographies, Mapping Violent Contestations: The Making of Symbolic Landscapes
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 5, 2013
Lucy Fernandez '14 and Lauren Rouse '14 ─ Two Revolutions: Tahrir Square and the American Military Online
6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 31, 2013
Romano Prodi ─ European Mediterranean and Middle East Policy
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 25, 2013
Oct 24–25, 2013
Middle East Studies Digital Humanities Symposium
October 24-25 Watson Institute
Oct 22, 2013
Amanda Chew '14 ─ My Name is (Wo)man: Voices of Istanbul
6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 17, 2013
Oct 9, 2013
Sa'ed Atshan ─ The Geography of International Aid in the Palestinian Territories
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 8, 2013
Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series ─ Scenes from the Gezi Park Protests
6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 27, 2013
Sep 26, 2013
After Oslo: Critical Conversations on Palestine/Israel
4 - 5:25 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 25, 2013
Hanan Ashrawi — Oslo: Process Versus Peace
4 p.m. Salomon Center for Teaching 101
Sep 19, 2013
William Gallois — Terror and Violence in Early Colonial Algeria
William Gallois, Senior Lecturer in the History of the Modern Middle East at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 12, 2013
Kirk Johnson — To Be a Friend is Fatal: Saving The Iraqis America Left Behind
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 29, 2013
Amr Shalakany -- 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers': Liberalism and Revolution in Modern Egypt
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 24, 2013
Palmira Brummett -- The Adriatic as an Ottoman Zone: Sovereignty, Cartography, and Cultural Flows in the Early Modern Era
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, RSVP to cmes@brown.edu to attend.
Apr 10, 2013
Hugh Roberts -- The Algerian Exception, the Algerianization of North Africa and the Encirclement of Algeria
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 3, 2013
Parmenion Papamichos Chronakis -- Revisiting the late Ottoman bourgeoisie. The entrepreneurs of Salonica in the Second Constitutional Period, 1908-1912
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room. Seating is limited, RSVP cmes@brown.edu to attend.
Apr 1, 2013
Dana Yahalomi -- SALONS: Birthright Palestine?
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum