Arab Uprisings Brown Bag Lecture Series with Douja Mamelouk
From Dictatorship to Constituent Assembly: What Comes After the October Elections in Tunisia
Monday, November 21, 2011 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Research Hall, 162
The Series Continues...
Saudi Arabia's Counterrevolutions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Rosie Bsheer
Monday, December 5, 12 pm
Research Hall Room 161
Rosie Bsheer 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.
The Fall of Anti-Regime Politics in Lebanon
Maya Mikdashi
Date & Location TBD
Maya Mikdashi is a PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of Anthropology and Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad. She is co-founder of Jadaliyya Ezine.
Sponsored by Middle East Studies Program, Global Islamic Studies, Arab Studies Institute.
