Thursday, February 2, 201712:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Slovenska vojska tudi med vikendom v velikem številu pri podpori Policiji. (Photo: Robert Cotič on Wikicommons, cropped.) CC BY-SA 3.0
Abstract: As walls and fences appear along European borders, it has become increasingly clear that the ongoing crisis in the Middle East is having an effect within Europe. Migration has caused fear of the other, the future, and rapid change amongst many Europeans.
But are these new exclusive and suspicious attitudes primarily a result of events in the Middle East, or are we in a new period of history in which radicalism and identitarian problems have overcome all other concerns to many in this world?
Saïd Chaaya holds a Ph.D, Summa cum laude, from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris-Sorbonne, in Middle Eastern History. He was a Fellow at the CNRS-GSRL, the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris.
His research focuses on the Intellectual and Political History of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East in the Nineteenth Century, with a particular interest in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the History department at UCLA.
Dr. Chaaya has published several academic papers in scholarly journals. He participated in many international conferences. His current research examines the complex relationships between the process of constitution of the state institutions and the confessional representations. While focusing on the first forms of power sharing in the Arab World, especially in Lebanon, 1845-1860, Dr. Chaaya examines the interactions between the political, religious and social dimensions in the Ottoman Beirut society
Cost : Free and open to the public. RSVP not required for admission.
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies