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SUMMARY:Iraq: Possible Futures - Including a return to the past
DESCRIPTION:<p>CMES presents a symposium</p><p><strong>Iraq: Possible Futures - Including a return to the past<!--break--></strong></p><p>Since its creation out of the three Ottoman Provinces - Basra, Baghdad and Mosul - after 1914, Iraq has been occupied several times, battled with Kurdish separatism, subject to a number of political revolutions, endured the long dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and several wars or periods of great tension with its Eastern neighbor, Iran. Not to speak of huge annual floods, uncertain title to land and now, paradoxically, low oil prices, heightened by sectarianism exacerbated by the Islamic State movement (ISIS), and a severe shortage of electricity and water. <em>Inter alia</em> this has given it a very different political history than that of its closest Arab neighbor, Syria.<br><br>What now? The aim of this symposium will be to discuss a range of future political and economic possibilities including a return to new versions such past political and constitutional arrangements as those of 1925, 1958, 2005, etc.<br><br>Organized by Professor <strong>Roger Owen</strong>, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, <em>Emeritus</em>, and Dr. <strong>Muhamed H. Almaliky</strong>, Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.<br><br>Speakers will include:<br><strong>Luay Al Khatteeb</strong>, Columbia University<strong><br>Orit Bashkin</strong>, University of Chicago<br><strong>Eric Davis</strong>, Rutgers University<br><strong>Kanan Makiya</strong>, Brandeis University<br><strong>A. Richard Norton</strong>, Boston University<br><strong>Joseph Sassoon</strong>, Georgetown University<br><strong>Sami Zubaida</strong>, University of London</p><p><em>Tentative program</em><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">March 11</span><br>9:20 am   Welcome: Roger Owen &amp; Muhamed Almaliky</p><p>9:30          <em>Political panel: </em>Reflection on the past and an update on the present<br>                 Sami Zubaida &amp; Kanan Makiya<br>                 Moderator: Muhamed Almaliky</p><p>11:30       Break for lunch</p><p>1:00 pm  <em>Economic panel:</em> Oil, flood and corruption<br>                Joseph Sassoon, Luay Al Khatteeb<br>                Moderator: Roger Owen</p><p>3:00         Break</p><p>3:30         <em>Cultural panel:</em> Expression of identity through poetry, art and religion<br>                 Eric Davis, Orit Bashkin<br>                 Moderator: Willian Granara</p><p>5:30          End of day 1</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">March 12</span><br>9:00 am  <em>  Summary session:</em> Regional implications and final thoughts<br>                  A. Richard Norton</p><p>11:00        End of symposium</p><p><strong>Contact:</strong> <a href="mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu">Liz Flanagan</a></p>
LOCATION:CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTEND:20160312T160000Z
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