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<\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI), Tadween Publishing, and George Mason Universitys Middle East Studies Program and Center for Global Islamic Studies on present " Mediating the Arab Uprisings" by Adel Iskandar and Bassam Haddad on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 4:30PM, at George Mason University Planetary Hall, Room 129. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n From “Facebook revolutions” to “Al-Jazeera uprisings,” the outburst of popular activism across the Arab world has either been attributed to the media, drawn up by the media, observed through the media, or decontextualized by the media. Bloggers become icons, self-proclaimed experts become interpreters of unfolding events, stereotypes are cultivated, and autocratic regimes continue to subdue freedom of the press. The uprisings have become the most compelling media stories in recent memory. With so much at stake, the burden of relaying human narratives accurately and responsibly is a burden on all journalistic establishments worldwide. <\/span> In a unique collection of essays that covers the expanse of the Arab popular protest movements, <\/span>Mediating the Arab Uprisings<\/em> leaves no stone unturned by offering spirited contributions that elucidate the remarkable variation and context behind the fourth estate’s engagement with these mass protests. <\/span> While the public debate about the coverage of the Arab uprisings remain effervescent and polarizing, the essays in this volume go beyond the cursory discussion to historicize media practice, unsettle pre-existing suppositions about the uprisings, puncture the pomposity of self-righteous expertise on the region, and shatter the naiveté that underlies the reporting of the uprisings. The volume includes essays on the tribulations of covering Syria, the contextualization and demythologizing of Facebook activism, the <\/span>New York Times<\/em>’ reporting rituals on Palestine, the tumult of Egypt’s media post-Mubarak, the ominous omnipresence of perennial media darling Fouad Ajami, the faltering of Al-Jazeera Arabic in the wake of the uprisings, the gendered sexuality of reporting Egypt, and journalism’s damning failure on Iraq. The first volume of its kind on this pressing topic, <\/span>Mediating the Arab Uprisings<\/em> is a primer for the curious reader, a pedagogical tool for media studies and communication, and a provocative collection for the seasoned scholar. The authors will discuss the book and the topic in the public lecture.<\/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 the George Mason University Middle East Studies Program, the Center for Global Studies and the Center for Global Islamic Studies present "Area Studies and Political Science: Tension, Integration, and Prospects" with Jo-Marie Burt, Eric McGlinchey, Ming Wan, Bassam Haddad and David Wilsford on Thursday November 21, at 2:45PM at the George Mason University Johnson Center, Room C.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n For too long there has been some tension between area studies and the discipline of political science. This panel includes five scholars of comparative politics and political science, addressing areas studies in Latin America, Central Asia, Middle East and East Asia. The panelists will address issues including the "ghettoization" of area studies, the tension between methods used/favored in both realms, the question of publications (peer-reviewed journals) and bias, the history and development of area studies, and future prospects for the troubled relationship. The reasons for the troubled relationship are many but not always compelling. Join us! <\/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 The George Mason University Middle East Studies Program, Center for Global Islamic Studies and Global Interdisciplinary Programs present Lisa Hajjar " Classified Memories: Trying to Try Terror Suspects who were Tortured by the CIA." This event will be held on Wednesday, November 20, at 3:00PM at the George Mason University Johnson Center, Room A.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Two high-profile cases being prosecuted in the military commissions at Guantanamo raise exceptionally challenging problems for the US government and the civilian and military lawyers defending the suspects. One case involves five people, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who are accused of responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The second case is against Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of participating in the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen in 2000. All six men were held for years in CIA black sites and subjected to the harshest interrogation tactics authorized by the Bush Administration. One of the most confounding issues in these trials is whether the government can classify the defendants' own memories of their treatment at the hands of the CIA. Probing into this issue as it is playing out in the commissions is a means of analyzing the relationship and contradictions among three larger issues -- torture, secrecy, and governmental unaccountability -- and the looming question of what "justice" can mean under these circumstances. <\/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 Join Arab Studies Institute ASI, George Mason University Middle East Studies Program & Middle East Etc., Film Club on Thursday, November 19, 2013 at 7:15PM at the Johnson Center, Room A, for a film-screening of The Battle of Algiers.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Driven by powerful performance, The Battle of Algiers<\/em> <\/strong>is a complex, award-winning landmark in film history that was initially banned by the French Government for its exploration of the Algerian struggle to gain independence from French Colonialism. <\/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 On November 19, 2013 the Arab Studies Institute (ASI), in collaboration with Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University will host Suniana Maira, to discuss "What Then?" Palestinian Hip Hop, the Youth Movement, and the Decolonial Present.This talk will be held in George Mason University, Johnson Center, Room A at 3PM. This talk draws on the research for her new book, " Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement." Based on ethnographic research in Palestine, primarily during the Arab revolutions, the book explores the intersections between new youth cultures and protest politics among Palestinians youth in the West Bank and Israel. It focuses on Palestinian hip hop and the youth movement that emerged in 2011 as two overlapping sites where new cultural and political imaginaries are being produced in the Oslo generation. Challenging the boundaries of the Oslo framework of national politics and cultural expression, these young artists and activists are rethinking and reviving the possibility of a decolonial present. <\/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 <\/p>\n\n The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and the George Mason University Department of Public and International Affairs, and Graduate Political Science Society present "The Syria Crisis (Part II): Causes and Dynamics" by Bassam Haddad. This event is being held on Thursday November 14, @ 4:30PM at George Mason University, Johnson Center Room A.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n All the other Arab uprisings are complex, but the Syrian case is endowed with added complexity because it is at the heart of various historical struggles in the region and beyond. As such, the Syrian uprising becomes a local, regional, and an international affair. The speaker will address the causes and dynamics of the Syrian uprising by examining state and society, the domestic and external opposition, the Islamicization of major parts of the opposition, the humanitarian/refugee crisis, and the international context.<\/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 Join the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies in presenting " Sex, Secularism and Sectarianism: the Legal Architecture of Citizenship in Contemporary Lebanon" with Maya Mikdashi. This event is being held at George Mason University Mason Hall, Edwin Meese Room at 12:00PM on Thursday November 14, 2013.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n This lecture will critically examine the legal architecture of Lebanese citizenship through the practice of strategic conversion, or religious conversion undertaken in order to make use of different aspects of the legal system. Mikdashi illustrates the process of strategic conversion by comparing it to that of correcting one's sex in the census registry, an act that also changes the network of laws that applies to a citizen. Through ethnographic and archival research on these practices of strategic conversion and the legal "correction" of sex by transsexual citizens, Mikdashi questions what effect the legal and bureaucratic transformation of madhhab<\/em> or sex has on the identification and or/recognition of a citizen's sect or gender. While madhhab<\/em> is the category through which the Lebanese state recognizes the personal status pertaining to each citizen, sect is a more multivalent and dense category that is recognized by the use of various technologies. What are the mechanisms through which these identities of madhhab<\/em>, sect, sex and gender are recognized and practiced? In what ways are Lebanese citizens acting within and towards the law and how do these actions help to redefine their identity as always in relation others? What work does the disarticulation of the madhhab<\/em> and sect do, and how might this disarticulation inform scholarship on citizenship in Lebanon, the contemporary Middle East, and beyond?<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Maya Mikdashi is a socio cultural anthropologist and Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad.<\/em> She is currently a Faculty Fellow and Director of Graduate Studies at the NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya<\/em>Ezine.<\/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 Join the Arab Studies Institute (ASI), George Mason University Middle East Studies Program and Middle East Etc. Film Club in a film screening of " The Glass House," on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @ 7:00 PM at George Mason University HUB (SUB II), Rooms 4 & 5. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n The Glass House is a riveting documentary on four Iranian girls, introducing a different aspect of society that is largerly ignored by the main stream media. <\/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 Join the Arab Studies Institute (ASI), George Mason University Middle East Studies Program and Middle East Etc. Film Club in a film screening of " 5 Broken Cameras," on Thursday September 26, 2013 @ 7:00 PM at George Mason University Enterprise Hall, Rooms #178.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n 5 Broken Cameras is an award winning documentary of a Palestinian farmers chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli Army. <\/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 Join the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and George Mason University's Middle East Studies Program at the Vision Series, Examining Important Issues of our Day. Dr. Bassam Haddad presents "Understanding the Arab Uprisings and Their Aftermath." This event will be hosted at George Mason University's Center of the Arts Concert Hall on Monday, September 23 , 2013 @ 7PM.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n This talk addresses the causes of the Arab uprisings and the seemingly troubled aftermath. The speaker argues that while generalizing is useful, it often times obscures the particular dynamics in each case of the Arab revolutions, and goes on to address the factors that will continue to spur mass protests if elected governments do not adequately deal with them.<\/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 Join The Arab Studies Insitute (ASI), George Mason Universitys' Middle East Studies Program, Public and International Affairs Department, Center for Global Studies, and the Ali Vurak Ak Center for Islamic Global Studies on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 @ 3PM at the Johnson Center, Room C for a riveting panel discussion on "The Syria Crisis (Part I)."<\/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 <\/p>\n\n Join the Arab Studies Institute (ASI), George Mason University Middle East Studies Program and Middle East Etc. Film Club in a film screening of the hit comedy,"100% Arabica" on Monday May 6, 2013 @ 7:00 PM at George Mason University Mason Hall, Meese Room.<\/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 By Bassam Haddad and Adel Iskandar\n
\n 11/26/2013 11:30 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: Awarded excellence in service by Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society Xi Lambda Chapter for role as acting president\n <\/p>\n
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\n <\/p>\n\nArea Studies and Political Science: Tension, Integration & Prospects<\/h2>\n
\n By Jo-Marie Burt, Eric McGlinchey, Ming Wan, Bassam Haddad and David Wilsford\n
\n 11/21/2013 09:30 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Johnson Center, Room C.\n <\/p>\n
\nClassified Memories: Trying to Try Terror Suspects Who were Tortured by the CIA<\/h2>\n
\n By Lisa Hajjar\n
\n 11/20/2013 10:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Johnson Center, Room A\n <\/p>\n
\nFilm Screening: The Battle of Algiers<\/h2>\n
\n By George Mason University Middle East Studies Program & Middle East Etc., Film Club\n
\n 11/19/2013 02:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Johnson Center, Room A\n <\/p>\n
\n"What Then?" Palestinian Hip Hop, the Youth Movement, and the Decolonial Present<\/h2>\n
\n By Sunaina Maira\n
\n 11/19/2013 10:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center, Room A.\n <\/p>\n
\nThe Syria Crisis (Part II): Causes & Dynamics<\/h2>\n
\n By Bassam Haddad\n
\n 11/14/2013 11:30 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center Room A\n <\/p>\n
\nSex, Secularism and Sectarianism: The Legal Architecture of Citizenship in Contemporary Lebanon<\/h2>\n
\n By Maya Mikdashi\n
\n 11/14/2013 07:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Mason Hall, Edwin Meese Room\n <\/p>\n
\nFilm Screening: The Glass House<\/h2>\n
\n By Arab Studies Institute (ASI), Middle East Studies Program (GMU), Middle East Etc. Film Club (GMU)\n
\n 10/29/2013 03:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University HUB (SUB II), Rooms 4 & 5.\n <\/p>\n
\nFilm Screening: 5 Broken Cameras<\/h2>\n
\n By Arab Studies Institute (ASI), Middle East Studies Program (GMU), Middle East Etc. Film Club (GMU) \n
\n 09/26/2013 03:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Enterprise Hall, Rooms #178\n <\/p>\n
\nThe Vision Series: Understanding The Arab Uprisings and Their Aftermath<\/h2>\n
\n By Bassam Haddad\n
\n 09/23/2013 03:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University's Center of the Arts Concert Hall\n <\/p>\n
\nThe Syria Crisis (Part I): A Panel Discussion<\/h2>\n
\n By Bassam Haddad, Peter Mandaville, Colin Dueck, Greg Koblentz, Moderated by Jo-Marie Burt\n
\n 09/18/2013 11:00 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: Johnson Center, Room C.\n <\/p>\n
\nFilm Screening: 100% Arabica<\/h2>\n
\n By Arab Studies Institute (ASI), Middle East Studies Program (GMU), Middle East Etc. Film Club (GMU)\n
\n 05/06/2013 03:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Mason Hall, Meese Room.\n <\/p>\n
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