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<\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program present Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: "Saudi Arabia's Counterrevolutions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives" on December 5, 2011, at 12 PM, at George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 161. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Rosie Bsheer<\/strong> is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University, where she also earned a Master of Arts in International Relations in 2006. Her academic training has been primarily in the history, politics, and culture of the modern Middle East, with a focus on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Since 2010, Rosie has also served as Co-Editor for Jadaliyya. Rosie just returned to New York City after two years of conducting dissertation research in Saudi Arabia as an SSRC-IDRF fellow and Columbia University GSAS fellow for her dissertation, currently titled “Making History: Petro-modernity and Spatial Transformations in Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program present Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: "From Dictatorship to Constituent Assembly: What Comes After the October Elections in Tunisia" on November 21, 2011, at 12 PM, at George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 162. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Dr. Douja Mamelouk<\/strong> was born in Tunis, Tunisia. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French Literature from Willamette University, Salem Oregon (1998), a Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University in Cairo (2000) and a certificate in Sustainable Development from the University of the Middle East in Casablanca, Morocco (2000). She received her Ph.D. in Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics from Georgetown University (2010). She has taught at Georgetown University, Catholic University and the George Washington University, all in the District of Columbia. Douja is currently an Assistant Professor of Arabic and French Literature at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program present Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: "<\/span>The People Want: Travels of a Slogan<\/span>" on November 17, 2011, at 12 PM, at George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 162. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Elliott Colla <\/strong>is chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine, and author of Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity (Duke University Press, 2007), and translator of works of contemporary Arabic literature, including Ibrahim Aslan'’s novel, The Heron, Idris Ali’'s Poor, and Ibrahim al-Koni's Gold Dust, as well as works by Yahya al-Tahir ‘Abdallah, Ghada Abdel Meniem and o<\/span>thers. He is currently translating The Animists, al-Koni's epic of the Sahara, and Rabai al-Madhoun's The Lady from Tel Aviv (Telegram Books, 2012).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program present Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: "<\/span>Elite Cohesion and Social Heterogeneity: Syria and the Arab Uprisings" on November 15, 2011, at 4:30 PM, at George Mason University, David King Hall, Room 1006. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Bassam Haddad<\/strong> is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Forthcoming, 2011, Stanford University Press). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal a peer-reviewed research publication and is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of a critically acclaimed film series on Arabs and Terrorism, based on extensive field research/interviews. He recently directed a film on Arab/Muslim immigrants in Europe, titled The "Other" Threat. Bassam also serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report and is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Program for Good Governance and Political Reform in the Arab World.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program present Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: "<\/span>Political Struggle in Yemen: Historical Conditions and Contemporary Developments" on November 14, 2011, at 12 PM, at George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 161. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n John Warner<\/strong> is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at City University of New York's Graduate Center. His research centers on the commodification of nature and resource politics in Yemen and the Middle East. He is a founding editor and author of the Findings collective for Anthropology Now, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to public engagement with anthropological knowledge. He is also a member of the Quilting Point film collective.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program, Global Islamic studies and Middle East Etc. Film Club present a Film Workshop Series: Politics and Poetics: Arab Art & Culture as Form of Resistance by Zein El-Amine on November 9, 2011, at 7:30 PM, at George Mason University, Mason Hall, Edwin Meese Room, III. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Zein El-Amine<\/strong> has a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Maryland and teaches Global Literature and Social Change at the University of Maryland. Zein leads annual literary study abroad trips to Egypt and Ireland. He is also one of the founding members of the award-winning trade magazine Left Turn, published in New York. He is a published poet and writer and was one of the translators for the Sundance Film Festival-nominated documentary Sling Shot Hip Hop.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program present Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: "Protests, Regime Strategies, & Political Stability in Jordan" on November 8, 2011, at 12 PM, at George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 161. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Ziad Abu-Rish<\/strong> is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He currently serves as the Graduate Student Representative to the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Ziad is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya<\/em><\/a>Ezine. More of his Jadaliyya<\/em> articles can be foundhere<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies Program, and the Working Group on Displaced Populations<\/em>, present:<\/p>\n\n A talk by leading scholar Joseph Sassoon, whose latest book focuses on the intricacies of Saddam Hussein's iron grip over Iraq. <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies Program, and the Working Group on Displaced Population, present: <\/em><\/p>\n\n by Sumaiya Hamdani<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n As part of the semester-long lecture series on the Arab uprisings, Sumaiya Hamdani, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History, discusses the ground-breaking developments in the Middle East taking a close look at the significance of public spaces that protest movements emerged from and Islam's role in this historic transformative period.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI), in collaboration with Middle East Studies Program and the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, brought together forty participants for a two-day conference entitled "Teaching The Middle East after The Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions . . . Beyond Orientalism, Islamaphobia, and Neoliberalism." Click here<\/a> to see the list of participants and abstract titles, the conference agenda, and a series of panel summaries.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/i>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n
\n By Rosie Bsheer\n
\n 12/05/2011 07:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 161.\n <\/p>\n
\nArab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: From Dictatorship to Constituent Assembly: What Comes After the October Elections in Tunisia<\/h2>\n
\n By Douja Mamelouk\n
\n 11/22/2011 07:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 162.\n <\/p>\n
\nArab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: The People Want: Travels of a Slogan<\/h2>\n
\n By Elliott Colla \n
\n 11/17/2011 07:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 162.\n <\/p>\n
\nArab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: Elite Cohesion and Social Heterogeneity: Syria and the Arab Uprisings<\/h2>\n
\n By Bassam Haddad\n
\n 11/15/2011 11:30 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, David King Hall, Room 1006. \n <\/p>\n
\nArab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: Political Struggle in Yemen: Historical Conditions and Contemporary Developments<\/h2>\n
\n By John Warner\n
\n 11/14/2011 07:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 161.\n <\/p>\n
\nFilm Workshop Series: Politics and Poetics: Arab Art & Culture as a Form of Resistance<\/h2>\n
\n By Zein El Amine\n
\n 11/09/2011 02:30 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Mason Hall, Edwin Meese Room, III. \n <\/p>\n
\nArab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series: Protests, Regime Strategies, & Political Stability in Jordan<\/h2>\n
\n By Ziad Abu-Rish\n
\n 11/08/2011 07:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 161.\n <\/p>\n
\nSaddam Hussein's Iraq: Inside the Dictator's Ba'th Party Rule<\/h2>\n
\n By Joseph Sassoon\n
\n 11/02/2011 07:30 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: Johnson Center, Room 116, George Mason University\n <\/p>\n
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\nThe Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of an extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers, and how the system of rewards functioned. Saddam Hussein's authority was dominant. His decision was final, whether arbitrating the promotion of a junior official or the death of a rival or a member of his family.<\/p>\n\n\n Revolutionary Spaces: Street, Square, Mosque, and the Role of Islam in the Arab Uprisings<\/h2>\n
\n By Sumaiya Hamdani\n
\n 10/27/2011 08:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: Research Hall, Room 161, George Mason University\n <\/p>\n
\n"Revolutionary Spaces: Street, Square, Mosque, and the Role of Islam in the Arab Uprisings"<\/h2>\n\n
Teaching The Middle East after The Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions<\/h2>\n
\n By Rabab Abdulhadi, Ziad Abu-Rish,As’ad Abukhalil,Tony Alessandrini, Paul Amar, Cemil Aydin, Shiva Balaghi, Asli Bali,Joel Beinin,Michaelle Browers, Jason Brownlee, Noura Erakat, James Gelvin, Peter Gran, Bassam Haddad, Lisa Hajjar, Sumaiya Hamdani, Linda He\n
\n 05/13/2011 02:00 am\n - \n 05/14/2011 04:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030\n <\/p>\n
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