UNDERSTANDING TODAY’S MIDDLE EAST: PEOPLE & PLACES of the ARAB SPRING
Saturday, April 12
9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Huntington Ballroom, The Colonnade Hotel
SPECIAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS & BOOK SIGNING:
Dr. Shadi Hamid
AUTHOR of
Temptations of Power:
Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
BCARS’ First Graduate Student Conference aims to illuminate the important
and evolving impacts of the Arab Spring on today’s Middle East by exploring
the following questions: Why did the “Arab Spring” or “Uprisings” happen where and when they did?
Why did revolts and revolutions affect certain Arab states, leave others alone,
and come and go in still others? What external actors are “meddling” in the
internal affairs of various Arab states and why? In the seeming cacophony of
the “Arab Street,” whose voices are being drowned out?
Panel 1:
Historical Context & Underlying Causes of the Arab Spring
Panel 2:
Changing Identity in the Arab Spring Spotlight on Syria
Panel 3:
Outcomes & Impacts in the Region & Beyond
Panel 4:
Islamic Politics
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-todays-middle-east-people-andplaces-of-the-arab-spring-tickets-11038302861
BOSTON CONSORTIUM for ARAB REGION STUDIES
at NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
CARNEGIE CORPORATION of NEW YORK