Events
Do Elections a Democracy Make? Covering the Iraqi and Palestinian Elections – A Report from the Field
February 16, 2005 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Speaker: Trudy Rubin, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Live Webcast: U.S.-Iran Relations After the Palestinian and Iraqi Elections
February 09, 2005 // 11:30am — 1:00pm
Ken Pollack, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Hadi Semati, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Tehran University, Iran.The video of this event is available here.
Live Webcast: Iraq After the Elections
February 03, 2005 // 11:00am — 12:15pm
Yitzhak Nakash, Current Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow; Associate Professor of Middle East History, Brandeis University. This event is co-sponsored with the Conflict Prevention Project and the Middle East Program. The video of this event is available here.
Book Launch: Truth Abouth Camp David: The Untold Story about the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process
January 25, 2005 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Clayton Swisher, C&O Resources
The Women's Movement in the Maghreb and Iran
January 13, 2005 // 11:00am — 12:15pm
Lilia Labidi, Professor of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Tunis, Tunisia; Nayereh Tohidi, Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology, Women's Studies Department, California State University-Northridge
Islam, Gender, and Reproductive Health: Part 4 of 6
January 11, 2005 // 11:00pm
The fourth meeting in the Islam, Gender, and Reproductive Health series features anthropologist Dr. Lilia Labidi of the University of Tunis and Dr. Karen Hardee, director of research at the Futures Group International in Washington.
The Iraq Elections: Women to the Ballot Box
December 22, 2004 // 8:00am — 9:30am
Abdulwahab Alkebsi, Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa, National Endowment for Democracy (NED); Denise Dauphinais, Deputy Director and General Manager, Center for Transitional Justice Program and Post-Conflict Governance, IFES; Stuart Krusell, Deputy Director of Iraq Programs, International Republican Institute (IRI); Makram Ouaiss, Senior Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa Region, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI); Maha Muna, Programme Manager and Officer in Charge, Governance, Peace and Security Unit, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM); Charlie Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator,International Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State.This event was co-sponsored by the Conflict Prevention Project and the Middle East Program.
Book Launch--Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy
December 09, 2004 // 2:30pm — 4:30pm
Eric Bjornlund, Democracy International; Commentator: Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Video of this event is available here.
Women's Perspectives from Pakistan and Iran: Searching for Modernity in an Age of Militarization
December 09, 2004 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
Shahla Haeri, Director, Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; Ayesha Siddiqa, Fellow, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Independent Security Analyst and Author
Live Webcast: Iraq Before the January 2005 Elections
December 06, 2004 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
A presentation with three Iraqi Ministers:Mamu Farhan Othman, Minister of State for Civil Society; Louei Hatim Sultan al-Aris, Minister of Transportation; Nesreen Mustafa Berwari, Minister of Public Works. Co-sponsored with the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Middle East Forum & the Conflict Prevention Project

