#  New CMES Spring 2013 lecture series: "Updates on the Arab Transformative Movements" 

 





February 12, 2013

 

 

CMES is pleased to announce a new spring 2013 lecture series titled "Updates on the Arab Transformative Movements." In a series of five lectures running from February 25 through April 25, 2013, scholarly experts will reflect on two years of change, uncertainty, and transformation in the Arab world.

All lectures in this series are free and open to the public, and will be held at CMES, Room 102 (38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA), from 4:00 to 5:30pm.

#### [Notes on Year Three of the Egyptian Revolution](/event/notes-year-three-egyptian-revolution)  


**Ellis Goldberg**, Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington University; Spring 2013 Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School  
***February 25, 2013***

#### [Why There Was No Arab Spring in Palestine](/event/postponed-march-13-why-there-was-no-arab-spring-palestine)  


**Salim Tamari**, Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University; Director, Institute of Palestine Studies; Spring 2013 Shawwaf Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies  
***RESCHEDULED to March 13, 2013***

#### [Who Are the Democrats? Studying Opinion Surveys in the Wake of Egypt’s 2011 Uprisings](/event/who-are-democrats-studying-opinion-surveys-wake-egypt%E2%80%99s-2011-uprisings)  


**Ishac Diwan**, Lecturer in Public Policy, director for Africa and the Middle East, Growth Lab of the Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government  
***March 26, 2013***

#### [How Israelis See the Arab Spring](/event/how-israelis-see-arab-spring)  


**Benny Morris**, Professor of History, Middle East Studies Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Spring 2013 Rohr Visiting Professor of Modern Israeli Studies, NELC Department, Harvard University  
***April 4, 2013***

#### [Identity Politics in the Post–Ben Ali Tunisian Transition](/event/identity-politics-post-ben-ali-tunisian-transition)  


**Malika Zeghal**, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Harvard University  
***April 8, 2013***

#### [The Arab Spring & Regional Implications for West Africa](/event/arab-spring-and-regional-implications-west-africa)  


**Ousmane Kane**, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society; Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University  
***April 25, 2013***



 

 

 



 

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