Amsterdam Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series 2014 Thursday 4 Sep PCH 104 17:00 hrs Johan Weststeijn (Arabist UvA) Farao, Mozes, Sisi: Het koranische conflict tussen profeet en tiran in de politiek van het Midden-Oosten Maaike van Berkel (Historian UvA) Respondent Thursday 11 Sep PCH 104 17:00 hrs Kawa Hassan (HIVOS) Post-Iraq States: Kurdistan, Caliphate and a Baghdad Rump State? Mariwan Kanie (PolSci/Arabic Studies UvA) Respondent Tuesday 23 Sep PCH 104 17:00 hrs Marwan Kraidy (Annenberg School for Communication/NIAS) The Revolutionary Body Politic: Corporeal and Digital Dissent in the Arab Uprisings Judith Naeff (Cultural Analysis UvA) The Disembodied and the Disappeared: Imagining martyrs and missing persons in Lebanese art, cinema and literature Thursday 2 Oct PCH 104 17:00 hrs Martin van Bruinessen (Anthropologist UU) Neoliberalism, religious & ethnic identity in Turkey: Erdogan, Gulen en Öcalan Zihni Özdil (Lecturer Erasmus University) Erdoğan in nine elections: the political economy of the AKP Thursday 9 Oct PCH 104 17:00 hrs Emanuela Dalmasso (PolSci UvA) In Search of Democratic Enclaves in Authoritarian Regimes: Morocco under Mohamed VI Ellen van de Bovenkamp (PhD student VU) Postcolonial Morocco: continuity in economic exploitation Thursday 16 Oct PCH 104 17:00 hrs Vivienne Matthies-Boon (PolSci UvA) The Political is Personal: Narratives of Trauma in (Post)Revolutionary Egypt Ihab Saloul (Cultural Analysis UvA) Competing Memories of Exile, Palestine/Israel ADMISSION FREE – DRINKS AFTER Locatie: P.C. Hoofthuis | Spuistraat 134 | 1012VB | Amsterdam Contact: [email protected]