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Noura Erakat Responds to Obama’s Declaration of U.S. Support for 1967 Borders
On May 19, President Obama declared in his speech about the Arab Spring that a Palestinian state must be based on 1967 borders—the first time a U.S. president has been explicit…
May 24, 2011
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Noureddine Jebnoun Reports on Refugees at the Tunisia-Libya Border
I had the opportunity to visit the Tunisian-Libyan border in Ras Ajdir in April 2011, where thousands of refugees have fled Libya since the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi began…
May 18, 2011
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Kojo Nnamdi Interviews Samer Shehata on the Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation Agreement
On the May 5 NPR program "The Kojo Nnamdi Show," CCAS Assistant Professor Dr. Samer Shehata answered questions about the recent reconciliation agreement signed by Fatah and Hamas…
May 5, 2011
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Scholars Speak on the Crisis of Authoritarian Rule in North Africa
On April 27, the Center hosted two specialists in North Africa and Arab politics, Drs. Lahouari Addi and Abdullatif Ahmida, in the final installment of its spring lecture, …
April 27, 2011
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CCAS Faculty Discuss the MENA Region’s Political Turmoil on NPR
On the April 26 edition of NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show," CCAS Assistant Professor Dr. Samer Shehata and CCAS adjunct professor Dr. Michele Dunne were joined by New York Times…
April 26, 2011
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CCAS Co-Sponsors Conference With USIP: Democratization and Conflict in the Arab World
On Wednesday, May 4, CCAS will join the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and Georgetown University’s Democracy and Governance Program to convene a conference assessing…
April 20, 2011
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Contextualizing the Revolutions: CCAS Continues its Series on Revolution in the Arab World
As an installment in its series, “Revolution in the Arab World: The Long View,” CCAS welcomed scholars Laleh Khalili of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the…
April 18, 2011
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Samer Shehata on NPR
On the April 15 edition of NPR’s “Marketplace,” CCAS assistant professor Dr. Samer Shehata read his commentary on the World Bank’s and the IMF’s role in the Middle. …
April 15, 2011
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Noura Erakat on Goldstone’s Recent Editorial
CCAS adjunct instructor Noura Erakat recently responded in an Al Jazeera English op-ed to Justice Richard Goldstone's recent editorial in the Washington Post. In it, Goldstone…
April 4, 2011
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Noureddine Jebnoun Discusses Libyan and Bahraini Uprisings on Alhurra
In March, CCAS adjunct professor Dr. Noureddine Jebnoun was a guest on the Alhurra television show “All Directions.” He commented on UN Security Council Resolution 1973,…
March 21, 2011