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Center Considers Arab Revolutions in Spring Lecture Series Margaret Daher
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CCAS Board Member Suad Juffali Honored with Awards for Public Service Mimi Kirk
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New Grants Administrator Joins CCAS
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Introducing Our Summer Interns
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Center Publishes Occasional Paper on Islam and Time
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Announcing Our New Edited Volume on Iraq TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Hanna Batatu and the Historiography of Modern Iraq, by Peter Sluglett Chapter 2: Social Complexity and National Identity in Hanna Batatu’s Scholarship on Iraq, by Reidar Visser Chapter 3: A State of Violence: A Sociological Reading of the Battle for Baghdad, by Peter Harling Chapter 4: Sectarianism, Historical Memory, and the Discourse of Othering: The Mahdi Army, Mafia, Camorra, and ‘Nrdangheta, by Eric Davis Chapter 5: Debris and Diaspora: Iraqi Culture Now, by Sinan Antoon Chapter 6: Hanna Batatu and U.S. Government Policy and Perceptions Regarding Iraq, by Wayne White Chapter 7: Iraq in the American Press, by Chris Toensing
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CCAS Symposium Considers “A Sense of Place” Mimi Kirk and Isaac Olson
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Thomas McDow
Nathaniel Mathews
William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Amal Ghazal
Alexandre Caeiro
Petra Kuppinger
A. David K. Owen
Louise Cainkar
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Simon Jackson
Wendy Pearlman
Sossie Kasbarian
Andrew Simon
Lamis Abdelaaty
Faedah Totah
Joseph Sassoon
Elizabeth Campbell
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Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad
Peter Adebayo
Anita Fabos
Wei Shen
Christina Civantos
John Tofik Karam
Carol Fadda Conrey
Maysoun Freij
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Reaching Out to Area Schools Zeina Azzam Seikaly
Saturday Seminar: “New Approaches to Teaching Ancient Civilizations”
Workshop: “Islamic Law and the Muslim Community”
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Outreach News Session for Teachers: “Learning and Teaching about the Arab World and Islam” A group of about 45 teachers from a number of schools in Maryland visited CCAS on February 9, 2011 for a session with Director of Educational Outreach Zeina Azzam Seikaly. She offered background information on teaching about the Arab world, the Arabic language, and Islam, and covered such topics as Arab-Americans and American Muslims; stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture; how to teach about sensitive issues such as religion and political conflict; and literary works that are appropriate for the classroom.
Workshop: “No Going Back: Authoritarianism and Protest in the Arab World”
Mini-workshop: “Addressing Islamophobia Through Film and Dialogue”
Speaker’s Bureau: Master of Arts in Arab Studies Students Speak at Area Schools Over the last few months, six students from CCAS’s M.A. in Arab Studies (MAAS) program tackled several Middle East subjects at local schools. In October and November a group of four (Kimberly MacVaugh, Zachary Foster, Jonathan Rose, and Nour Joudah) visited Washington International School to speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, covering topics including the Palestinian diaspora since 1947, the Suez crisis, Camp David and the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, and the current situation. In November, Anny Gaul volunteered to speak on Morocco to a group from the African and American Women’s Association. She showed pictures from her experience with Peace Corps in the country and discussed the history, culture, society, and religion of Morocco. Nour Joudah also spoke to three ninth grade global studies classes at Georgetown Day School in March about the history of Libya and the current revolution. During the same month, Nada Ramadan participated in a panel discussion with teachers and parents at Stone Ridge School on the subject of Islamophobia.
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The MAAS Class of 2008 Engages with the Egyptian Uprising Robert Duffley
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CCAS Graduates the MAAS Class of 2011 Kelli Harris
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Nida Alahmad, Noureddine Jebnoun, Michael Hudson,
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