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The Middle East Studies Program and the Arab Studies Institute would like to present artist Ramy Essam.<\/p>\n\n Ramy Essam is best known for his heady performances in Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the January 25 Revolution. His song, "Irhal!' ("Leave!"), became an anthem for the mass street protests against Hosni Mubarak's 30-year dictatorship: "We are all united, we demand one thing: Leave! Leave! Leave!" He played hours before the "Battle of the Camel" — the surreal pro-Mubarak offensive on Tahrir Square — and during the clashes was hit on the head with a rock. A foreign camera crew<\/a> filmed him there the next day, head bandaged and defiant: "We will stay here until Hosni Mubarak goes. … I will sing again, I will not stop singing until [he] goes.” (AL-MONITOR<\/a>)<\/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 Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of The Lost Dream<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n Ten years after the US-led war in Iraq, thousands of displaced Iraqi refugees are still facing a crisis in the United States, yet their personal stories have been under reported in mainstream news. Director Jehan Harney follows Nazar and Salam who fled Iraq to avoid threats by Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and Iraqi insurgents that see them as “traitors” for supporting US forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom. <\/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 Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of Layali Bala Noom<\/em><\/strong> with Director Eliane Raheb. <\/p>\n\n Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia, responsible for many casualties in the protracted civil war in Lebanon and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of Maher, a missing young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982, the film digs in the war wounds and asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n “Playful and aggressive, elegant and confrontational, sardonic and melancholic, the dense film looks at the legacy of Lebanon’s sectarian civil war (1975-1990) through its discontents.” Filmcomment- Nicholas Rapold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n “The best new documentary at True/False was Sleepless Nights<\/em>, a wrenching, narratively and thematically dense dual portrait of two people struggling to reconcile their experiences during Lebanon’s civil war in the 1980s.Sleepless Nights<\/em> is a bold documentary that asks difficult questions about the process of truth and reconciliation in a country still divided among religious and political lines, but it’s also an example of a filmmaker trying to think and work in images.” POV magazine-Adam Nayman<\/strong><\/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 Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a guest lecture on Arab Cinema with Director Eliane Raheb. <\/p>\n\n Do the changes/revolutions have a significant impact on Arab cinema? And if yes how? Is it in its form, content, language or institutions? What’s expected today from the Arab filmmakers nowadays? Are they fighting for new cinema laws, that disable censorship and give more liberty and freedom of expression? Will there be more space for independent movies on the market? We will try to answer these questions through taking some examples from the history of the Arab Cinema that were influenced by the winds of changes of the 60s, 70s and 80s eras (Algeria, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon), and compare them to today’s cinema trends in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria, with a reflection on the role of cinema in times of changes, fiction v/s documentary.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n About The Director<\/p>\n\n Eliane Raheb <\/strong>is born in Lebanon and is the director of 2 short films: The last screening and Meeting, and of the documentaries : Karib Baiid (So near yet so far), Intihar (Suicide) and Hayda Lubnan (“This is Lebanon”) which received the Excellency Award at the Yamagata film festival, and was broadcasted on ARTE/ZDF/ Al Jadeed and NHK. Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless nights) is her first feature documentary.<\/p>\n\n With Nizar Hassan, she founded ITAR productions, and the cross media documentary Arabi Hor (Free Arabs) www.arabihor.com<\/a>, a project on the dailies of people within the Arab revolutions, that produced 160 short documentaries aired online.<\/p>\n\n She is also one of the founders of the cultural cooperative for cinema Beirut DC , where she was the artistic director of “Ayam Beirut al Cinem’iya” film festival for 6 editions.<\/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 Join the Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club for a film screening of The Time That Remains. Pizza and refreshments provided! <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Nominated for the Palm d'Or at Cannes, The Time That Remains<\/strong> is an intimate, semi-autobiographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland from the time Israel declared its independence in 1948 to the present day.<\/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 <\/strong>Middle East Studies Program, the Trans-Arab Research Institute, Arab Studies Institute, New Century College, and Global Programs for a panel discussion on Israel's offensive, Operation Protective Edge, against the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n\n Featuring...<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n David J. Luban <\/strong>Georgetown University, Georgetown Law Center<\/p>\n\n Margaret deGuzman <\/strong>Temple University, Beasley School of Law<\/p>\n\n George Bisharat <\/strong>University of California, Hastings College of the Law<\/p>\n\n Noura Erakat <\/strong>George Mason University, New Century College <\/p>\n\n Kevin Jon Heller <\/strong>University of London, SOAS <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n In July and August, hostilities in the Gaza Strip left 2,131 Palestinians and 71 Israelis dead, including 501 Palestinian children and one Israeli child. Of Gaza’s 1.8 million residents, 475,000 are living in temporary shelters or with other families because their homes have been severely damaged. The extent of destruction has raised questions around culpability for war crimes on all sides of the conflict. International organizations including the United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called for independent investigation.<\/p>\n\n Palestine is considering accession to the Rome Statute, which would grant the International Criminal Court the authority to investigate war crimes conducted in Palestinian territory. Such an investigation would bring both Israel and Palestine under scrutiny for events from this summer and as far back as 2012, and possibly to 2002 when the ICC was first formed to investigate war crimes.<\/p>\n\n This panel will explore the relevant legal questions under international criminal law as well as the political issues related to ICC accession by Palestine.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n SPEAKER BIOS<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n David Luban<\/strong> is University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. In addition to his Georgetown responsibilities, he is currently the Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy. In 2012-13 he co-directed the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. Luban has also directed Georgetown's Center on National Security and Law.<\/p>\n\n Luban's books include Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study (Princeton University Press, 1988), Legal Modernism (University of Michigan Press, 1994), Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Torture, Power, and Law (Cambridge University Press), as well as several edited anthologies on legal ethics, textbooks on international criminal law, and legal ethics. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish - most recently a book-length Spanish translation of A Theory of Crimes Against Humanity. His writing includes more than 150 articles on international criminal law, moral and legal philosophy, professional ethics, law and literature, just war theory, and issues surrounding the U.S. "war on terrorism." He has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n\n Luban is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and received the American Bar Foundation's Keck Award and the New York Bar Association's Levy Award, both for distinguished scholarship. In 2011 he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University.<\/p>\n\n Luban joined the Georgetown faculty from the University of Maryland. He has held visiting chairs at the Fordham, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools; been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the Interdisciplinary Center (Israel); and a visiting professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College and the University of Melbourne. A frequent speaker in the United States, he has lectured in fifteen other countries.<\/p>\n\n Luban is on the editorial boards of Ethics & International Affairs and Legal Ethics, and is a Founding Editor of the weblog Just Security. He has served on the D.C. Bar's ethics committee, and chaired the AALS Sections on Professional Responsibility and on Law and Interpretation, as well as the Committee on Law and Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Margaret M. deGuzman<\/strong> teaches criminal law, international criminal law, and transitional justice. Her research engages questions about the appropriate role of international criminal law in the global legal order, with a particular focus on the concept of gravity. She has authored a number of publications on such issues as the definitions of international crimes, the role of case and situational gravity in the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the theoretical underpinnings of selection decisions at the ICC. She is currently participating in an international expert group drafting a model code for the investigation and prosecution of international crimes.<\/p>\n\n Professor deGuzman is a graduate of Yale Law School, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Senegal and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Irish Center for Human Rights of the National University of Ireland.<\/p>\n\n Before joining the Temple faculty, Professor deGuzman clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law in San Francisco for six years, specializing in criminal defense. Her cases involved charges ranging from insider trading and trade secret theft to mail fraud and drug trafficking. Professor deGuzman also served as a legal advisor to the Senegal delegation at the Rome Conference on the International Criminal Court and as a law clerk in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n George E. Bisharat<\/strong> was a trial lawyer for the Office of the Public Defender in San Francisco before joining the UC Hastings faculty in 1991. Professor Bisharat studied law, anthropology, and Middle East studies at Harvard, and wrote a book about Palestinian lawyers working under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. He writes frequently on law and politics in the Middle East, both for academic audiences and for major media sources in the U.S. and abroad. Professor Bisharat is an avid fly fisher, sometimes in such exotic locations as Russia and New Zealand, and also writes articles for fly-fishing magazines. He sings and plays blues harmonica, and occasionally forms bands with student musicians to perform at UC Hastings events. His wife, Jaleh Bisharat, is a business marketing specialist, and his children, Valerie and Austin, are a source of pleasure and pride.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Noura Erakat<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University where she teaches in the legal studies, international studies, and human rights/social justice studies concentrations. Her scholarly interests include humanitarian law, human rights law, refugee law, and national security law. She earned her BA and JD from Berkeley Law School and her LLM in National Security from the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya e-zine. Prior to beginning her appointment at GMU, Noura was a Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple Law School and has has taught International Human Rights Law and the Middle East at Georgetown University since 2009.<\/p>\n\n Upon completing law school, Noura received a New Voices Fellowship to develop a litigation unit aimed at redressing Palestinian human rights claims under the ATS in US federal courts. She went on to serve as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, chaired by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich. In Spring 2010, Noura worked with a Lebanese human rights attorney to file habeus corpus petitions on behalf of Iraqi refugees detained by Lebanese authorities. Upon leaving Lebanon, she became the Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights where she represented their claims before the Human Rights Council, human rights treaty bodies, among the UN diplomatic missions as well as among the US Administration and Congress.<\/p>\n\n Her scholarly publications include: "U.S. vs. ICRC-Customary International Humanitarian Law and Universal Jurisdiction" in the Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, “New Imminence in the Time of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense” in the Arizona Law Review, and "Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes: Closing the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement," forthcoming in the Oxford Journal of International Refugee Law . Noura’s media appearances include MSNBC, Fox News, PBS NewsHour, BBC World Service, NPR, Democracy Now, and Al Jazeera. She has published in The Nation, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Huffington Post, IntlLawGrrls, The Hill, and Foreign Policy, among others. Noura is the co-editor with Mouin Rabbani of Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures, an anthology related to the 2011 and 2012 Palestine bids for statehood at the UN.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Kevin Jon Heller<\/strong> is currently Professor of Criminal Law. Until 2014, he was Associate Professor & Reader at Melbourne Law School, where he also served as Project Director for International Criminal Law at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, a joint project of Melbourne Law School and the Australian Defence Force. He holds a PhD in law from Leiden University, a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School, an MA with honours in literature from Duke University, and an MA and BA in sociology, both with honours, from the New School for Social Research.<\/p>\n\n Kevin’s academic writing has appeared in a variety of journals, including the European Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Criminal Law Forum, and the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. His books include The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2011); The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (Oxford University Press, 2013) (edited with Gerry Simpson); and The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford University Press, 2011) (edited with Markus Dubber). He is currently writing a book entitled A Geneology of International Criminal Law, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2015. For the past eight years, Kevin has also been a permanent member of the international-law blog Opinio Juris.<\/p>\n\n On the practical side, Kevin has been involved in the International Criminal Court’s negotiations over the crime of aggression, served as Human Rights Watch’s external legal advisor on the trial of Saddam Hussein, and served from December 2008 until February 2011 as one of Radovan Karadzic's formally-appointed legal associates. He consults regularly with a variety of UN organisations (such as the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan — UNAMA) and human rights groups (such as Gisha and Human Rights First) and is a core trainer for Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection, a Brussels-based NGO that conducts IHL trainings in various locations around the world.<\/p>\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Sponsored by Middle East Studies Program, the Trans-Arab Research Institute, Arab Studies Institute, New Century College, and Global Programs<\/em>.<\/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
\n By Ramy Essam\n
\n 12/03/2014 01:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Research Hall, Room 163\n <\/p>\n Film Screening: The Lost Dream<\/h2>\n
\n By Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club\n
\n 11/19/2014 03:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center Cinema\n <\/p>\n
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\nOnce in the U.S., however, they find themselves without any resources or support, wondering in the end if their sacrifice was all worth it. Through their home videos, personal diaries, and media clips the film intimately captures their emotional, psychological, and physical struggles as they reconcile their hopes for a liberated Iraq with the harsh reality of refugees without a stable home. The Lost Dream<\/strong> is produced by ITVS and executive produced by Oscar-nominated documentarian (My Country, My Country<\/strong>) Laura Poitras.<\/p>\n\n\n Film Screening: Layali Bala Noom (Sleepless Nights) with Director Eliane Raheb<\/h2>\n
\n By Eliane Raheb\n
\n 11/11/2014 02:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center Cinema\n <\/p>\n The Democratizaion of Arab Cinema In Times of Political Changes<\/h2>\n
\n By Eliane Raheb\n
\n 11/11/2014 11:30 am\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center, Room G\n <\/p>\n Film Screening: The Time That Remains<\/h2>\n
\n By Middle East Studies Program, Arab Studies Institute, and Middle East Etc. Film Club\n
\n 11/07/2014 02:30 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University, Johnson Center, Room 239A\n <\/p>\n Operation Protective Edge: Legal and Political Implications of an ICC Prosecution<\/h2>\n
\n By David Luban, George Bisharat, Margaret deGuzman, Noura Erakat, Kevin Jon Heller\n
\n 10/20/2014 12:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: Johnson Center, Room C, George Mason University\n <\/p>\n
\nAll You Wanted to Know About ISIS & Did Not Know You Should Ask<\/h2>\n
\n By Bassam Haddad, Maria Dakake, Peter Mandaville and Jack Goldstone\n
\n 10/16/2014 02:00 pm\n \n \n <\/span>\n
\n Location: George Mason University Merten Hall (formerly University Hall), #1201\n <\/p>\n
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