Arab Spring - Schedule | Global Studies Center

SCHEDULE (Tentative):

Friday, March 30

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm Introduction
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm Richard Bulliet - Colonialism, the Cold War and the Arab World
6:45 pm- 7:00 pm Break
7:00 pm- 8:30 pm Dan Simpson –The Arab Spring: What It Has to Do with You

Saturday, March 31

8:30 am - 9:45 am Samer Shehata - US Foreign Policy and the Arab World
9:45 am - 10:00 am Break
10:00 am - 12:30 pm Panel: Gender Equity: Employment, Political Participation and Religious/Secular Paradigms
- Valentine Moghadam - After the Arab Spring: Toward Social Rights and Women's Economic Citizenship
- Riham Bahi - Islamic feminism: New Horizon for Knowledge and Reform
- Zakia Salime
- Fatma El Hamidi (Moderator)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Loubna El Abbadi - Media in the Post Arab Spring Era: Who owns the message?
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Break
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Moataz Herzawi Fattah - Theocracy, Secularism and Democratic Reform in the Arab World
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Break
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm Cultural Creativity: Traditional to Post Revolution
Najeeb Shafiq - Do school incentives and accountability measures raise skills in the Middle East and North Africa? The cases of Jordan and Tunisia
Amani Attia –The “Others” in Ahmed Towfiq’s Utopia: A novel that anticipated the Egyptian revolution
Muhsin al-Musawi - Politics/Poetics of the Popular Revolution

Sunday, April 1

9:00 am - 10:30 am Heba Raouf Ezzat- The Arab Revolutions and the Public Sphere
10:30 am - 10:45 am Break
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Mohammed Bamyeh - Social Revolution Movements in the Arab World: The Role of Labor, Women and Youth, and Comparisons to other World Regional Revolutions
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm Evaluations and wrap up

Arab Spring - Schedule