The Middle East
- Founded
1971 - Seminar Number
525
The seminar usually meets once a month during the academic year. A prominent expert from here or abroad, commonly from the Middle East, leads a four-hour discussion at each meeting, assuring ample time for seri- ous dialogue on focused issues. The seminar provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences by Middle East experts in various spheres—business, banking and investment, federal service, the foundations, the media, and the liberal professions as well as academia. The seminar has become a medium for carefully defined and informed evaluation of stubborn problems in a region that symbolizes mounting instability and proliferating crises. Detailed minutes are circulated to participating members for use without attribution to uphold the confidentiality of the discussion.
Chair
Gary Sick
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University, International Affairs, and Director, Gulf 2000 Project
ggs2@columbia.edu
Associate Chair
Lawrence Potter
Staff Associate, Middle East Institute, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University, International Affairs
lgp5@columbia.edu
Rapporteur
Seth Anziska
sea2009@columbia.edu
Meeting dates and locations are subject to change. Please confirm details with the seminar rapporteur.
Welcome
Meetings
| 09/17/2014 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
Iraq, the Kurds, and the New Islamic State
Dr. Denise Natali, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
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| 10/15/2014 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
Islamists, the Military, and Revolution in the Middle East
Prof. Khaled Fahmy, American University in Cairo
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| 11/19/2014 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
Understanding the Islamic State (ISIS)
Cole Bunzel, Ph.D. Candidate, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
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| 12/10/2014 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
Afghanistan after the US/NATO Combat Mission
Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, Director and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation of New York University
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| 01/21/2015 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
“The Price of Oil is Down: Should We Care?”
Jason Bordoff, Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Fellow and Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Andrew Cooper,
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| 02/18/2015 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
2015, A Century On: Is a New Sultan on the Rise?
Dr. David Cuthell,
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| 03/11/2015 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
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| 04/22/2015 | Faculty House 5:00 PM |
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