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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Greetings,<br>
<br>
The Lebanese Club @ MIT would like to invite you to a <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Lecture Series on Lebanese-Syrian Relations &amp;
Recent Developments in the Middle East</span></i> to be held throughout
February at the new Stata Center, MIT:<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Tuesday, FEBRUARY 8, 2004, 7:00pm,
at 32-141 (<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&amp;Buildings=go">map</a>)</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'><br>
&#8220;How To Understand Contemporary Syria: One Historian&#8217;s Perspective&#8221;
&#8211; <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Philip S. Khoury</span></i>, </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kenan
Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Tuesday, FEBRUARY 15, 2004, at
7:00pm, at 32-141 (<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&amp;Buildings=go">map</a>)</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'><br>
&#8220;The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria&#8221; &#8211; <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Noam Chomsky,</span></i></span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Institute
Professor of Linguistics at MIT</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 22, 2004, at 7:00pm, at 32-141 (<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&amp;Buildings=go">map</a>)</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'><br>
&#8220;Lebanese-Syrian Relations: An Insider's Perspective&#8221; &#8211; <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Adib Farha,</span></i></span></font></b><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Advisor of
former Lebanese Prime Minister and Professor of Economics at LAU, Lebanon</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><br>
<br>
All lectures are on Tuesdays at 7:00pm in 32-141 (Stata Center - 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge | <a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&amp;Buildings=go">map</a>). Due
to limited seating capacity, please plan to arrive around 15 minutes early. Attendance
is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.<br>
<br>
For more information about the event (lecture abstracts, speaker bios, &amp; venue
location), please visit:<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/events/upcoming.html">http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/events/upcoming.html</a><br>
<br>
We apologize if you receive this email in error more than once; expect a reminder
before each talk with the speaker&#8217;s bio and lecture abstract.<br>
<br>
<br>
Hope to see you there!<br>
Loai<br>
<br>
(On behalf of the Lebanese Club @ MIT)<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>

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