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- News
How Will History Remember Rafiq Hariri?
Interview by Steven Gertz On February 12, 2013, CCAS Visiting Assistant Professor Hannes Baumann presented at Georgetown research from his doctoral dissertation on Lebanon’s…
March 15, 2013
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Political Scientists to Join CCAS in 2013-2014
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies is pleased to announce the appointments of Marwa Daoudy and Daniel Neep as permanent members of the SFS faculty. The Center for…
March 12, 2013
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Q&A with Lisa Hajjar (MAAS ’86)
MAAS alumna and university professor Lisa Hajjar discusses recent developments in the American public debate over the use of torture, and the personal road she took to speaking…
March 5, 2013
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The Problem with Keeping Torture Secret
I chose the MAAS program because of the political and intellectual interests I developed in my teenage years. In 1975, I traveled to the Middle East for the first time as a 13…
March 5, 2013
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Roads of Arabia
The Center’s educational outreach program partnered with the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art for a unique teacher workshop on January 29.…
February 15, 2013
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A Nation Divided
No sooner had I landed in Cairo than I found myself whisked into a series of daily protests. Thousands of Egyptians were protesting the sweeping powers President Muhammad Mursi…
January 14, 2013
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MAAS Alumnus Wins Graduate Student Paper Prize at MESA
Zachary Foster's paper identified and explored an environmental tragedy that led to mass starvation in Greater Syria, and the death of 500,000 people there during World War I.…
December 7, 2012
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Celebrating ‘After Jews and Arabs’
On November 1 and 2, 2012, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies along with the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and the Levant Foundation co…
November 14, 2012
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MAAS Alumna Kathleen Ridolfo Becomes Director of the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
Research on the Middle East has taken MAAS alumna Kathleen Ridolfo places she never expected. At CCAS, she specialized in Palestinian politics, but since leaving there, she has…
March 10, 2012
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Dr. Noureddine Jebnoun Gives Interview to Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera Arabic’s show “Behind the News” recently invited CCAS faculty member Dr. Noureddine Jebnoun to comment on U.S. diplomatic cables on North Africa released by…
December 10, 2011