The Arab Revolts Conference

Causes, Dynamics, Effects

Friday 13 April, 2012
9:30am - 6pm, $0/Rsvp

Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall
1190 Amsterdam Ave, Room 501

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9:30 AM: Opening Keynote:
Rashid Khalidi (Columbia)
America and the Arab Revolts

*Moderated by Bashir Abu-Manneh (Columbia)


11 AM First Panel:

Gilbert Achcar (SOAS, London)
Roots and Dynamics of Arab Revolt

Asef Bayat (Illinois)
Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution-Again

Mona El-Gobashy
The Politics of Counter-Revolt in Egypt


*Moderated by Marwa El Shakry (Columbia)


2:15 PM Second Panel:

Jason Brownlee (Texas)
Antecedents of the Tunisian Revolt

Gershon Shafir (UCSD)
Tahrir in Tel-Aviv?

Lisa Wedeen (Chicago)
Ideology in the Political Present: Notes from Syria

*Moderated by Nadia Abu El-Haj (Columbia)

430 PM Closing Keynote:

Khaled Hroub (Cambridge)
After the Revolts: The Question of Palestine

*Moderated by Rashid Khalidi (Columbia)

Sponsored by the Center for Palestine Studies

Co-sponsored by:
Middle East Institute
Trans-Arab Research Institute (TARI)
Heyman Center
MESAAS
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