2018-05-01 02:05
It saddens me to note the passing of David Scott Palmer, my colleague for 25 yrs. Scott was a skilled Latin Americanist, a fine teacher & a remarkably generous person. Scott's contributi… Read More
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Excursions on the Middle East, politics, the Levant, Islam in politics, civil society, and courage in the face of unbridled, otherwise unchecked power.
2017-05-30 21:48
Campagna-Kerven website Read More
2017-05-17 02:29
The claim by Andrew Exum on on PBS NewsHour that the US president has right to declassify foreign classified information is wrong on the facts and on logic. Presidential right to declassify… Read More
2017-03-02 16:19
The piece runs as the lead review in Middle East Policy Read More
2017-02-25 23:09
Fatma Müge GöçekProfessor of Sociology and Women's StudiesUniversity of Michigan"Minorities in Turkey: from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic"At the Castle, 225 Bay State R… Read More
2017-02-25 23:00
Review essay on Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was fired as Donald Trump's first National Security Advisor. While Flynn is now longer at the elbow of the president, many of the ideas that he es… Read More
2017-02-15 01:11
--> Over the next four years, indeed, in the coming days and weeks, President Donald Trump will have to deal with an array of national security threats. These may come in m… Read More
2017-01-05 20:57
MASON, Herbert Warren II Of Newbury, MA, died suddenly on New Year's Day. He was Emeritus University Professor and William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of History and Religious Thought at Bosto… Read More
2016-12-20 21:50
In the ruins of Aleppo, a moral accounting of what the world let happen.WBUR, "On Point". December 19, 2016.Richard Norton, professor of anthropology and international relations at Bos… Read More
2016-10-07 16:53
Ruhi Ramazani, the doyen of Iran scholars in North American, was a distinguished University of Virginia scholar, an elegant and optimistic human being, and a man whose generous heart was leg… Read More
2016-08-30 22:32
The Top Foreign Policy Influencers in BostonNote that several of the people listed are only nominally in Boston or Cambridge, which is to say they are affiliates of institutions such as Harv… Read More
2016-05-16 16:21
The April 2016 lecture--"Impossible Journeys: From Past to Future and Back Again"--featured Professor Reşat Kasaba of the University of Washington.Watch on YouTube Read More
2016-03-26 17:41
2016-03-19 18:53
2016-03-19 18:53
The Boston University Institute for Iraqi Studies has held two workshops on the Syrian refugee crisis. The first workshop was held in March 2013. The audio transcript and re… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
April 23, 2014The Annual Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey4:30 pm at The Castle, Boston UniverstityProf. Ayşe KadıoğluonMemory and Democracy: Skeletons in the Turkish C… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ's FUTUREA discussion with Zaid Al-Ali Wednesday, March 26, 2014 5 PMReception to followBoston University Trustee Lounge*School of Management, 9th F… Read More
2016-02-16 02:29
Statement by the Middle East Studies Association Committee on Academic Freedom Read More
2016-02-16 01:35
2015-07-23 02:27
2015-07-22 17:17
Harvard Law Prof Alan Dershowitz offers (Boston Globe, July 16, 2015) what I take to be a illusory critique of the Iran nuclear deal that is rather typical of much of the punditry on the Ira… Read More
2015-07-16 22:20
Leaked U.S. documents from the horde stolen by Edward Snowden point to Israeli naval commandos as the killers of the Syrian general on beach in Tartous on August 1, 2008. The inf… Read More
2015-07-12 03:44
This is an enlightened effort to bring higher education to young women in a rural setting where the notion of "going off to college" is culturally difficult.Some the graduating student wrote… Read More
Just Published By IISBU: A New Occasional Paper By Eric Davis Who Takes Democracy Seriously In Iraq.
2015-06-09 21:50
Davis is the author of the superb Memories of State and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.A special note thanks to Jaime Jarvis, a superb professional editor, for her help… Read More
2015-05-21 21:07
New Prologue and Expanded Afterword."Best introduction....succeeds in rising above the passions of the debate."--As'ad AbuKhalil (Journal of Palestine Studies). Jimmy Carter readi… Read More
2015-05-21 20:52
For more than 30 years, the Conference Group on the Middle East has met in conjunction with annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. This year's panel on youth pol… Read More
2015-03-16 22:11
Reserve your seat for the 20th annual CKLS lecture.This years lecture is delivered by Professor Jenny White from the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. Those who follow T… Read More
2015-02-10 04:30
Borzou Daragahi offers an excellent report on the leaked tapes.The plotters' ridicule of and obvious disdain for the Gulf "half-states" will not play well in Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and… Read More
2015-01-25 17:06
Professor Jenny White is the 2015 lecturer. “The Turkish Complex: Bigman, Hero, Traitor, State." At the Castle, Boston University. For more information see the lec… Read More
2014-12-15 19:37
See previous post.Call for papers Read More
2014-12-14 04:03
CONTENTSCURRENT HISTORYDecember 2014 Vol. 113, No. 767339 ISIS and the Third Wave of Jihadism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fawaz A. GergesThe Islamic State has tak… Read More
2014-12-08 23:41
The Conference Group on the Middle East (CGME) meets in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The 2015 meeting convenes in San Francisco, S… Read More
2014-11-28 17:15
"To describe the Middle East as in tumult would be an understatement. Four countries—Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen—are in some semblance of civil war, and a discourse&n&hell…Read More
2014-11-27 14:59
The lecture by Dr. Joseph R. Núñez, sponsored by the Boston University Institute for Iraqi Studies (@IISBU) is now available in streaming audio. The rapporteur's report b… Read More
2014-11-17 16:08
Retired Colonel Joseph Núñez spent five years in Iraq. What makes him relatively unique is that much of his time was spent in Iraq's provinces, so he has been, so to speak, in… Read More
2014-10-19 03:57
"Benjamin Netanyahu has not had a good year. Israel’s prime minister was blamed by the US administration for wrecking its latest attempt to reassemble a peace process. In truth, there… Read More
2014-10-17 05:11
As you may have noticed from press reports, the Carter Center, which opened an office in Egypt in 2011 following the January 25 Revolution announced the closure of the office on October 15… Read More
2014-10-17 05:07
The Chicago Council has been conducting annual surveys of U.S. public opinion on foreign policy issues for decades. The latest survey, like earlier ones, reveals important contrasts between… Read More
2014-09-13 20:08
My earlier obituary of "B.J." Read More
2014-09-03 16:42
When I was privileged to meet with Ahmed Seif I was impressed by his energy, his integrity and his selfless commitment to the cause of human rights in Egypt. His voice is needed as muc… Read More
2014-08-16 22:06
Ahmad Shokar's essay deserves to be read. It very much relates to my earlier post on the repressive Egyptian regime.Shokar observes:The vigorous attempts by state officials, along… Read More
2014-08-14 04:52
The CGME is a quarter century old and meets annually with the APSA. Conference Group on the Middle EastClawing Back Power: Arab Regimes at a Time of Mobilized PublicsDate:Saturday… Read More
2014-08-13 15:52
The response of the Egyptian government to the investigative report "All According to Plan" [حسب الخطة Arabic link] by Human R… Read More
2014-07-29 16:28
Robert Bianchi, author of the still rewarding and remarkably topical Unruly Corporatism (OUP, 1989), offers an analysis that is incisive and persuasive. Through an examination of the e… Read More
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