<div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,'Sans Serif',Arial;font-size:11px"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">As part of Palestine Awareness Series, </span><font size="4" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>Palestine<font color="#006600">@</font></b></font><font color="#cc0000"><font size="4" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>M</b></font><font size="4" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>I</b></font><font size="4" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>T</b></font></font><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> cordially invites you to a lecture by </span><b style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Tamim Al-Barghouti</b><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">, on the prospects of the Palestinian conflict in a post revolutions Arab world. </span></div>
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<font size="4" color="red"><b>When: </b></font><font size="4" color="red">Thursday, February 21, at 6 pm </font></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">
<font size="4" color="red"><b>Where:</b></font><font size="4" color="red"> MIT Room 54-100</font></div><div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b><br>
</b></div><div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>Arab Revolutions and Counter Revolutions: A Testimony from There</b></div><div><div style="text-align:center">
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<font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#222222"><span style="font-size:13px">Two years after the Arab Revolutions began, one can see tensions in Egypt and Tunisia with no radical change in either country’s foreign policy and strategic alliances, a transfer of power from a president to his vice president in Yemen, civil unrest in Libya, all out civil war in Syria and no change at all in Bahrain. Has the movement failed? has it been contained? Or is there more change taking place in the Arab World than meets the eye? This lecture shall discuss the extent of change in political organization, in political culture and, subsequently, in the balance of power in the Arab Word. It shall discuss the prospects of independence, democracy, the Arab Israeli conflict and American influence in the region from behind the tear gas clouds in the streets of Cairo, the walls and checkpoints of the West Bank and rubble of Syrian villages.</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial,sans-serif" color="#222222"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="arial" color="black">Tamim Al-Barghouti is a political scientist. He is currently the Core Team leader of The United Nations Economic and Social Committee for West Asia's futuristic project: The Arab World 2025.</font></div>
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