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<p><a name=khoury></a><b><u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>February
8th<font color="#cc3300"><span style='color:#CC3300'> | </span></font>Dean
Philip Khoury</span></font></u></b><b><font size=2 color="#cc3300"
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:#CC3300;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><font size=2
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<b><i><font color="#cc3300"><span style='color:#CC3300;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>How To Understand Contemporary Syria: One Historian’s
Perspective</span></font></i></b></span></font><b><i><font size=1
color="#cc3300" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:#CC3300;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'><br>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#CC3300;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'><br>
</span></font></i></b><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Dean Khoury will mainly focus on the internal
dynamics of the Baathist Asad regime and, in particular, how it came to power
under late Syrian President Hafiz al Asad and how he managed to hold on to
power for 30 years before his son Bashar's succession. Dean Khoury's
perspective, as always, is that of a historian. Interplay with Lebanon, Israel, the United States, and Iraq will also be featured in the lecture. A 30-minutes
Q&A session will follow and hopefully draw the audience's insight on the
Lebanese-Syrian relationship. The whole session is estimated to last 80
minutes.</span></font></p>
<p style='text-align:justify'><img width=130 height=163
src="cid:image001.jpg@01C50D7F.2A9C4820" align=left hspace=8 vspace=5
style='border-bottom-color:#E1D1D2;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:
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border-top-color:#E1D1D2;border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:2px'><i><font
size=1 color=gray face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:gray;font-style:italic'>Philip S. Khoury is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and a member of the History
Faculty. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1980 and joined the
History Faculty in 1981. Professor Khoury is a political and social historian
of the Middle East whose research focuses on urban politics and nationalist
movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His publications include
Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945
(Princeton University Press, 1987 and 1989), which received the George Louis
Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, and Urban Notables and Arab
Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860-1920 (Cambridge University Press,
1993 and 2004). He is also the co-editor of Tribes and State Formation in the
Middle East (University of California Press, 1990), Recovering Beirut: Urban
Design and Post-war Reconstruction (Leiden, 1993), and The Modern Middle East: A Reader. 2nd Edition. (I.B Tauris, 2004). He is currently engaged in a study
of the impact of the Second World War on politics and society in the Middle East. Professor Khoury is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association of
North America and a trustee of Trinity College, the American University of Beirut, the Toynbee Prize Foundation, and the World Peace Foundation, of which he
is chairman. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</span></font></i></p>
<p style='text-align:justify'><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/external.html?http://web.mit.edu/khoury/www"
target="_blank">More about Philip Khoury</a> (<img border=0 width=22 height=11
src="cid:image002.gif@01C50D7F.2A9C4820"
alt="Links to external pages will open in a new browser window"
title="Links to external pages will open in a new browser window"
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The Lebanese Club @ MIT would like
to invite you to a <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Lecture Series on
Lebanese-Syrian Relations & Recent Developments in the Middle East</span></i>
to be held throughout February at the new Stata Center, 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'>Tuesday, FEBRUARY 8, 2004, 7:00pm,
at 32-141 (<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go">map</a>)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
72.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;font-weight:bold'><br>
“How To Understand Contemporary Syria: One Historian’s
Perspective” – <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</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&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>
“The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria” – <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>
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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&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>
“Lebanese-Syrian Relations: An Insider's Perspective” – <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>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
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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&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, &
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’s bio and lecture abstract.<br>
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Hope to see you there!<br>
Loai<br>
<br>
(On behalf of the Lebanese Club @ MIT)</span></font></p>
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