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Taking Stock: The Arab Uprisings on the Eve of Their First Anniversary

A joint talk by James Gelvin (UCLA) and Juan Cole (University of Michigan)

Thursday, November 10, 2011
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 

_{L: Juan Cole, R: James Gelvin}

James Gelvin: "What History Explains: The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational."

James L. Gelvin is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UCLA.  He was graduated from Columbia University (A.B.), the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia Univeristy (M.I.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.).  He has taught at Boston College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the American University in Beirut.  A specialist in the modern social and cultural history of the Arab East, he is author of Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (University of California Press, 1998), The Modern Middle East: A History (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2007, 2011), The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (Cambridge University Press, 2005, 2007), along with numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes.  His most recent book about is The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2011.)

Juan Cole: "Mobilization and Collective Action in the Arab Spring." 

Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He has been a regular guest on PBS’s Lehrer News Hour, and has also appeared on ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now! and many others. He has given many radio and press interviews. He has written widely about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. He has commented extensively on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the Iraq War, the politics of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Iranian domestic struggles and foreign affairs. He has a regular column at Truthdig. He continues to study and write about contemporary Islamic movements, whether mainstream or radical, whether Sunni and Salafi or Shi`ite. Cole commands Arabic, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam. He lived in various parts of the Muslim world for nearly 10 years, and continues to travel widely there.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Johanna Romero
Tel: (310) 825-1455
romero@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Department of History