"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" |
Lecture by Harvard Professor and Co-Author of The Israel Lobby Stephen Walt.
May 29, 2008, Ewart Memorial Hall
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"The Bush Administration's War on Terror: Implications for Human Rights and Peace in Africa" |
Lecture by American human rights activist and School of Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Visiting Professor John Prendergast.
May 5, 2008, Oriental Hall
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Lecture by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter |
Lecture by former U.S. president and winner of the 2002 Nobel peace prize Jimmy Carter. Carter was in Cairo as part of a trip to the Middle East in an effort to ease tension in the region.
April 17, 2008, Ewart Memorial Hall
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"The Stakes Have Never Been Higher: The Middle East Policy Debate at the 2008 Elections" |
English Public Lecture by James Zogby, founder and president of the US-based Arab American Institute and prominent lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues.
April 8, 2008, Ewart Memorial Hall
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"The Making of In An Antique Land: India, Egypt and the Cairo Geniza" |
Lecture by author, anthropologist and professor Amitav Ghosh.
April 2 , 2008, Oriental Hall
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"The Role of American Education in Today's Middle East" |
Address by AUC President David D. Arnold at Georgetown University on American higher education in the Middle East.
March 19, 2008, Georgetown University
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"Writing as Transgression: Thoughts on Teaching New Writers Not to Abide" |
Lecture by playwright, screenwriter and poet Naomi Wallace, distinguished visiting professor at the performing and visual arts department.
March 9, 2008, Oriental Hall
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“Al-Qaeda: Past, Present and Future” |
English Public Lecture by Distinguished Visiting Professor, AUC alumnus and Pulitzer Prize Winner Lawrence Wright '71. Wright’s book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006) spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2007.
February 26, 2008, Ewart Memorial Hall
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"The Challenges to Islam, Christianity and Judaism in Today's Global Crisis" |
Lecture by Hans Kung, Catholic priest, eminent Swiss theologian and prolific author. Since 1995, Kung has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos).
December 2, 2007, Ewart Memorial Hall
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"Arab-Israeli Relations 1990-2007: Lessons Learned" |
Lecture by Shibley Telhami, professor of political science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Telhami holds the Anwar Sadat chair for Peace and is a specialist in the politics of the Middle East, especially the Israeli-Arab conflict.
November 28, 2007, Oriental Hall
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Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture by Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland (1990-1997) and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002).
November 25, 2007, Ewart Memorial Hall
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"Covering Al Qaeda: Reality and Spin Doctoring" |
Lecture by Al Jazeera's London bureau chief, chief investigative correspondent and AUC alum Yosri Fouda.
November 18, 2007, Oriental Hall
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"The Vocation of a Democratic Intellectual" |
Edward Said Memorial Lecture by Cornel West, professor of religion and African-American studies at Princeton University.
November 6, 2007, Oriental Hall
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American Studies Lecture by Cornel West, professor of religion and African-American studies at Princeton University.
November 7, 2007, Oriental Hall
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English Public Lecture by Anne Lamott, author of several novels and works of non-fiction.
November 1, 2007, Oriental Hall
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