Post Tagged with: "Middle East studies"

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) studies faculty from across the state will gather for the Ohio Symposium on Middle East Studies on April 9, with Ohio University faculty well-represented. The symposium is co-convened by Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, and Dr. Ellen Fleischmann of the University of […]

The 2016 Baker Peace Conference at Ohio University “History, War, and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East” is March 24 & 25. The conference focuses on the Middle East, from World War I to the present time. These events are free and open to the public. Keynote Address Thursday March […]

The 2016 Baker Peace Conference features a panel on Making Sense of Today’s Middle East on Friday, March 25, at 3 p.m. in Baker Ballroom A, The theme of the 2016 conference, held March 24 and 25 at Ohio University, is “History, War, and the Shaping of the Modern Middle […]

The 2016 Baker Peace Conference features a panel on Iraq, Saudi Arabia, & the U.S. during the Cold War on Friday, March 25, at 1 p.m. in Baker Ballroom A, The theme of the 2016 conference, held March 24 and 25 at Ohio University, is “History, War, and the Shaping of […]

The 2016 Baker Peace Conference begins with a keynote address by Dr. Rashid Khalidi titled “The Persistence of the Sykes-Picot Frontiers in the Middle East” on Thursday March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelson Commons. The theme of the 2016 conference, held March 24 and 25 at Ohio University, […]

The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) interviewed Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, about the role of “the state, or lack thereof,” in the contemporary history of Lebanon—looking back to the first 15 years after independence from France in 1943, a period that predates the country’s […]