Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. He discussed his new book, “Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience.”
Marc Lynch is associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University as well as the director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS).
Marc Lynch’s teaser of his new book “The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East.”
Wendy Pearlman is the Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.
Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of several books, including The Dynamics of Democratization; Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords; and Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World.
Panelists:
Bassam Haddad, George Mason University
Salwa Ismail, University of London
Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace
Moderated by:
Marc Lynch, George Washington University
Ashraf Khalil is a Cairo-based independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for a variety of publications including The Times (London), Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Middle East edition of the Rolling Stone.
Timothy Mitchell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.
Panelists:
Stacey Philbrick Yadav – Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Sheila Carapico – University of Richmond
Laurent Bonnef0y –Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, France; Centre français d’archéologie et de sciences sociales de Sanaa, Yemen
Moderated by:
Marc Lynch – George Washington University
Panelists:
John P. Entelis, Fordham University
Chris Alexander, Davidson College
Melani Cammett, Brown University
Moderated by:
Marc Lynch, George Washington University