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Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
6 November 2015 @ George Mason University


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Conference Agenda:
Panel 1: Field Research   : :   3:00 pm
Melisande Genat, Stanford University
From Agrarian Experiments in the Context of Socialist ''Villagization'' to Population Displacements: Iraqi Kurdish Collective Towns During the Seventies

Max Ajl, Cornell University
Event and Conjuncture : Braudel, Political Economy, and the Tunisian Uprising

Panel 2: Teaching the Middle East   : :   4:30 pm
Omar Dahi, Hampshire College
Against the Grain: Syrian Refugees and the Political Economy of Survival

Shana Marshall, George Washington University
Do not go quietly: Human agency, contingency, and the push to formulate a structural explanation of the Arab Spring

Ziad Abu-Rish, Ohio University
Revisiting the Merchant Republic: Lebanon in Comparative Perspective

Samer Abboud, Arcadia University
The World Bank, the Arab Uprisings, and the Poverty of Neoliberal Repetition

Bassam Haddad, George Mason University
Incorporating Class and Capital in Teaching the Middle East:  The Case of Syria, Then and Now

for more information, visit MEIS.GMU.EDU

Sponsored by Middle East and Islamic Studies, Arab Studies Institute, Political Economy Project, AVACGIS, SPIGIA, and Global Programs
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​​CONFIRMED EVENTS

First Workshop (April 24-25, 2015)
"Development and the Uprisings"
Location: ASI Office, George Mason 

Second Workshop (June 14-15, 2015)
"The Arab Uprisings: Class Formation and Class Dynamics"
Location: SOAS, London

Third Workshop (September 14, 2015)
"The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization" 
Location: Birzeit University, Ramallah

Fourth Workshop (September 17, 2015)
​"Tunisia: An Economy in Transition"
Location: Tunis, Tunisia

Fifth Workshop (October 8, 2015)
​"Turkey: Migrant States and Mobile Economies"
Location: GMU, VA

Sixth Workshop (November 6, 2015)
​"Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Teaching  and Research"
Location: GMU, VA

Seventh Workshop (November 7, 2015)
"Pedagogy Workshop"
Location: GMU, VA

Eighth Workshop (February 19-21, 2016) 
“New Directions in Middle Political Economy"
Location: Stanford, CA
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