Guided Search: Governance, Middle East

Every year, military airstrikes in conflict zones like Iraq, Syria, and Libya result in thousands of civilian deaths and displacement. To shed light on the impact that civilians face in these conflict zones, the Council is hosting a discussion with the Director of Airwars, a non-profit transparency organization working to track, assess, and archive military actions and related civilian harm claims in conflict zones.

The Middle East Center at UPenn will be hosting Dr. Rosie Bsheer in conversation with Professor Robert Vitalis. They will be lecturing and conversing on the politics and history of Saudi Arabia.

The Middle East Center, co-sponsored by: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program are hosting The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. In The Moral Triangle, Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere.

Richard Wike, Director of Global Attitudes Research Pew Research Center, will discuss the results of Pew Foundation studies regarding attitudes of Middle Eastern nations and people of the United States.

A Tuition-Free Six-Part Lecture Series: Wednesday Evenings at 7pm beginning March 4, 2015

Doctors Without Borders is coming to Philadelphia for a FREE panel discussion!

Chaired by James Gately Featuring Kevan Harris Postdoctoral Researcher Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies What to make of Hassan Rouhani, the man elected last year to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of Iran? Is he a "moderate?" Is a new relationship with Iran in the offing?

The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia hosts Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer foreign affairs columnist, and Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera senior political analyst, as they offer their analyses of the Arab Spring and its long-range implications for both the Arab world and the greater global community. See inside for registration options. 

Project for Nuclear Awareness and Drexel School of Public Health sponsor a panel discussion on Iran, NPT, Loose Nukes, and Nuclear Solutions. Scheduled Speakers include Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr, Professor Frank von Hippel, chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and Professor Jim Ranney, Widener Law School