Boston University

Center for International Relations 154 Bay State Road , MA 02215

www.bu.edu/ir

About the presenters:

The Center for International Relations at Boston University is an integral part of the IR Department. The mission of the center is to complement and enhance the activities of the department by sponsoring conferences and seminars, arranging for guest speakers and scholars to visit the department, and coordinating research activities on topics related to international affairs.

The Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations at Boston University reflects the university’s long-standing commitment to the advancement of scholarship of the Muslim world and acts as an interdisciplinary meeting point for scholars and researchers in diverse fields, including anthropology, history, religion, literature, and the arts. Friday, November 15, 2013

The Trans Arab Research Institute (TARI) provides scholarly studies relative 9:00 am to 5:00 pm to understanding the present social, cultural, economic and political issues The Castle at Boston University confronting Middle Eastern societies. To this end, TARI holds conferences, 225 Bay State Road seminars and workshops to exchange ideas and present scholarly papers, as Boston, MA 02215 well as produce publications to share research and seminar results with the general public and specialists on the area. Presented by The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) was founded in 1954 for the purpose of furthering the study of the Middle East at . This mandate features a primary emphasis on the centuries since the rise of Islam and a concern with the wider Islamic world. CMES serves Harvard as the With support from coordinating body and the primary source of support for the various courses and academic programs that cover the vast region from Morocco and North Africa to Turkey and Iran.

Conference Schedule Co-Chairs: Professor Hani Faris, Trans Arab Research Institute Conference Schedule Professor Richard Norton, Boston University

9:00 am – 10:30 am “In Quest of Freedom & Dignity” 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm “The Arab Socio-Political Order: Challengers, Beneficiaries and Old Guards” Elaine Hagopian, Simmons College, chair Leila Farsakh, University of Boston, chair Haytham al Manna’, National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, “Road Map for a Political Solution in Syria” Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, University of New England, "Post February 17 Revolution: The Challenges of Transitional Justice, Truth and Amr Hamzawi, American University in Cairo, TBD National Reconciliation in Libya"

Sara Roy, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, Denis Sullivan, Northeastern University, “The Resiliency of Egypt’s “Whither Palestine?” Deep State: Are there any Challengers Left?”

Melanie Cammett, Brown University, “A Political Economy of the Arab Roger Owen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard Uprisings" University, “The Resilience of the Deep State”

10:30 am to 10:40 am Break Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London, “The Arab Uprising Between Revolution and Counter-Revolutions” 10:40 am to 12:10 pm “Youth & Women & the Arab Uprisings” 3:00 pm to 3:20 pm Break Betty Anderson, Boston University, chair 3:20 pm to 4:50 pm “External Involvement in Arab Uprisings” Farouk El-Baz, Boston University, “Revolt of Egypt's Youth”

Caryle Murphy, Pulitzer Prize Winner for International Reporting, Seif Da’na, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, chair “What Do Saudi Twenty-Somethings Want?” Tamirace Fakhoury, Lebanese American University, TBD Chloe Mulderig, Boston University, "Adulthood Denied: Implications of Youth Dissatisfaction on Revolutionary Outcomes in the Arab Hugh Roberts, , “European Attitudes and Policy World" Responses to the Crises in North Africa (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya), 2010- 2013” Ghanim Alnajjar , Kuwait University, “Successes and Failures of Youth and Women Movements in the Gulf" Robert Pelletreau, Former US Ambassador to Bahrain, TBD

12:10 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch Sadek al-‘Azm, Right to Non Violence, 5:00 pm Conference Ends speaker 10/24/2013