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Samer Shehata Appears on The Colbert Report
On Monday, January 31, CCAS's Dr. Samer Shehata appeared as a guest on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report on a segment titled "Mubarak Mu Problems." During the conversation with…
January 31, 2011
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Elliott Colla Writes on Poetry of the Egyptian Revolution
Dr. Elliott Colla, a member of CCAS's Executive Committee, recently published an article on the ezine Jadaliyya.com entitled "The Poetry of Revolt." In it, he addresses the…
January 31, 2011
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Panel Discusses Post-Revolt Tunisia
Last week, a panel of three experts addressed the events that have unfolded in Tunisia. Dr. William Zartman, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International…
January 29, 2011
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Noureddine Jebnoun Comments on Tunisian Uprising on NPR
On the January 20 Diane Rehm Show, alongside Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC TV) senior correspondent Nadia Bilbassy and former U.S. Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of…
January 20, 2011
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Faculty Member and Alumna Publish Op-Eds on Egypt’s Coptic Situation
Early on New Year’s Day, a bombing at Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt killed 25 Coptic worshippers. Adel Iskandar, an adjunct faculty member at the Center, and Dina Hussein,…
January 15, 2011
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Dr. Jean-Francois Seznec Weighs Democracy on the Doha Debates
In November 2010, CCAS Visiting Associate Professor Dr. Jean-François Seznec appeared on the BBC World News program The Doha Debates, where he argued against hasty democracy in…
January 10, 2011
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Dr. Samer Shehata Comments on Egyptian Elections for Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
In “Women Crowd Egypt’s Ballot,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter Betsy Hiel follows several women candidates as they prepare for the Egyptian parliamentary elections of…
November 28, 2010
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A Conversation with David Jackson, MAAS ’83
David Jackson may be president of Northridge Capital, an independent real estate management firm in Washington, D.C., but he calls himself an “Arabist.” “People in the real…
November 10, 2010
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MAAS Students Form Consulting Club
This fall, three MAAS students—Alex Maass, Anne-Laure Malauzat, and Mat Zalk—started the Georgetown Graduate School of Foreign Service Consulting Club (GSFS CC). The club…
November 8, 2010
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Dr. Fida Adely to Conduct Research in Jordan Next Semester
CCAS Assistant Professor Fida Adely, the Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair in Arab Studies, will journey to Jordan next semester, where she will conduct research as the…
November 7, 2010