CSME Events

Previous CSME events

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST

1- Dr. Pierre M. Atlas, "MODERN ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY CONFLICTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST"

2- Dr. Nadje Al-Ali, "WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE MIDDLE EAST" 

3- Dr. Piper O’Sullivan, "CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN"

4- Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi, "UNDERSTANDING US-MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS"

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Grad Panel (II): Sufism, Shiism, and Statecraft

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Grad Panel (I): Sufism, Shiism, and Statecraft

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A Decade of Reporting from Battlefields, Borderlands, and Baghdad by Shelly Kittleson

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State Formation and Shiism in the Modern Era

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Twilight in Afghanistan: Two Perspectives

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Ramifications of the Taliban Re Takeover of Afghanistan Regional Perspectives

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Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman: Dilemmas for the Biden Administration in the Gulf

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Professor Omar Dewachi: “Ungovernable Life: the Unmaking of Biopolitics in Iraq” 

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Professor Will Hanley: "International Law’s Middle East Supply Route" 

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Dr. Ossama A. S. Abdelgawwad:"Questioning Hermeneutics and Intellectual History in Medieval Islam"

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Panel: “Israel in the Middle East after Trump”

Professor Dina Spechler (Indiana University)
Professor Pierre Atlas (Marian University)
Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi (Indiana University)

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Professor Glenn Robinson: “Global Jihad and Movements of Rage.”

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Ambassador Barbara Bodine: “Yemen: the Middle East in Microcosm”

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Professor Jennifer Derr: “Ecologies of Disease on the Dammed River Nile”

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Professor M. Nazif Shahrani: "How and Why Democracy by War Produced a Kleptocracy in Afghanistan"

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Conversation with author Elliot Ackerman about “Red Dress in Black and White”

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Dr. Hussein Ibish: "Why the UAE and Bahrain are Opening to Israel and What it Means"

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Click here for Mr. Asghari's recording

Click here for Mr. Shepard's recording

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“Siding with the Ayatollahs” The International Community, the US, and the Iran Nuclear Agreement

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Click here for the Democracy in Iraq recording

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News Fixers and International Perceptions of Turkey and Syria

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Dr. Benjamin Priest: Kurds; Unlucky Nation

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'Deal of the Century' Peace in Israel and Palestine?

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Amin Saikal: IRAN: The Islamic Regime's Resilience Under Pressure

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Why Study Kurdish?

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Ruizhi Ma: "Avicenna on the Reality of Color: Greek Context and the Modern Reflection"

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Amin Sofiamehr and Ahmad Hasan: Al-FARABI AND HIS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

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