Event Type: Public Talk

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  • What Makes a Good Diplomat?

    Ambassador Dimitri Alexandrakis has wide-ranging experience as a diplomat.

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  • The Prospects for U.S. Democracy: Contention, Crisis, and Continuity

    Join Professor of Government Clyde Wilcox as he discusses the state of American democracy with a distinguished panel of Georgetown University political scientists including Hans Noel, Jamil Scott, and Paul Musgrave.

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  • Hisham Matar in Conversation with Kamila Shamsie

    Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents. He is the author of the novels In the Country of Men, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Anatomy of a Disappearance.

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  • Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in Conversation with Kamila Shamsie

    Qalam: Great Writers in Conversation with Kamila Shamsie

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  • Film Screening and Discussion: Arabs and Terrorism

    Join us for a film screening of Bassam Haddad's 2007 documentary Arabs and Terrorism.

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  • From Revolution to Fragmented Authoritarianism: The Proxification of the Syrian Uprising

    1A16 (Executive Program Suite) Speakers Bassam Haddad Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and…

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  • Consumption Governance: The Role of Production and Consumption in International Commerce and International Law

    The lecture will provide insights into how international economic conflict has dramatically increased over the last two decades.

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  • On Public Architecture and Arab Modernity

    How can architecture learn from its past histories of public building, while also designing for contemporary and future forms of participation?

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  • Cultural Disruption and the Ancient Greek Tradition, or : How to Write Literature in a Brand New World

    Please join us for this talk that explores how these writers negotiated this tension, and it raises larger questions about the way that artists operate in times of epochal change.

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  • Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood and Iran’s Axis of Resistance Narrative

    Daniel Brumberg is Senior Advisor to the Democracy and Governance program at Georgetown University and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Center.

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