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CCAS Faculty Member Speaks at ADC Conference
CCAS would like to congratulate Dr. Saleh Abdel Jawad for the honor he received at the recent ADC National Convention held in Washington, DC from June 12-15,.…
June 24, 2014
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Life, Death, and War in Post-2003 Iraq
Recent MAAS graduate Kevin Davis reviews fellow alumnus's Sinan Antoon's book, The Corpse.…
June 11, 2014
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Mabruk, Class of 2014!
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies congratulates the Master of Arts in Arab Studies class of 2014 in their graduation from Georgetown University on May 16,. …
May 10, 2014
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This Election’s No Cause for Celebration
CCAS Carnegie Centennial Fellow Lahouari Addi critiques Algeria’s political system as it holds what is essentially a rigged presidential.…
April 17, 2014
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Moroccan Ambassador Visits CCAS
Morocco's ambassador to the US, Mr. Rachad Bouhlal, met exclusively with CCAS students to discuss a variety of topics. On March 6, 2014, Morocco's ambassador to the US, Mr.…
March 7, 2014
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Don’t Always Trust the Numbers
CCAS Post-doctoral Fellow Hannes Baumann explains why he thinks international monitors of corruption failed to identify what was really happening in Ben Ali’s Tunisia. CCAS-…
March 3, 2014
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Qatari Ambassador Meets with CCAS Community
His Excellency Mohamed Bin Jaham Al Kuwari dialogued with CCAS faculty and students about his new position as Qatar's ambassador to the US and about Qatar's international…
February 24, 2014
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Reflections on an Egyptian Coup
On January 29, 2014, the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies co-sponsored at Georgetown a day-long conference…
February 14, 2014
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Obama and the Middle East: Rebalancing or Just Stumbling About?
Former CCAS Director Michael Hudson speaks about Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East at Harvard University's Middle East Initiative Speaker Series. Harvard University's…
January 30, 2014
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What Does Power Look Like?
On October 23, 2013, Dr. Mehran Kamrava, director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Qatar, spoke at CCAS…
January 13, 2014