<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div class="BodyFragment"><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Please join us for the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar:</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>"Iran and the United States: Eternal Enemies or Natural Partners?
"</b></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaker: <b>Stephen Kinzer</b>, Journalist in Residence, Brown University; Formerly of the New York Times</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:30–6:30pm</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">70 Memorial Drive, <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E51">Building E51</a>, Room 376</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The lecture is free and open to the public.</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>About the Speaker:</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling."</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kinzer’s newest book, <i>The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War</i>, has been widely praised. Reviewers have called it sparkling, riveting, gripping, bracing, and disturbing. The Wall Street Journal called it a “fluently written, ingeniously researched, thrillerish work of popular history.” </div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire. </div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">From 1983 to 1989, Kinzer was the Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, where he covered war and upheaval in Central America. For the first half of the 1990s he was the Times bureau chief in Berlin. From there he covered the emergence of post-Communist Europe, including wars in the former Yugoslavia.</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In 1996 Kinzer was named chief of the newly opened New York Times bureau in Istanbul, Turkey. He spent four years there, traveling widely in Turkey and in the new nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus. After completing this assignment, Kinzer published<i> Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds.</i></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In 2006 Kinzer published <i>Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq</i>. It recounts the 14 times the United States has overthrown foreign governments.</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kinzer has made several trips to Iran, and is the author of <i>All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror</i>. It tells how the CIA overthrew Iran's nationalist government in 1953. In 2010 Kinzer published <i>Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future</i>, which Huffington Post called “a bold exercise in reimagining the United States’ big links in the Middle East.” </div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He wrote about Africa in his book <i>A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It</i>.</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kinzer has taught political science, journalism and international relations at Northwestern and Boston University. He is now a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he teaches international relations.</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He contributes articles to periodicals including <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, and writes a world affairs column for The Boston Globe.</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The University of Scranton awarded Kinzer an honorary doctorate in 2010. “Where there has been turmoil in the world and history has shifted, Stephen Kinzer has been there,” the citation said. “Neither bullets, bombs nor beating could dull his sharp determination to bring injustice and strife to light.”</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>About the Seminar Series:</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Bustani Middle East Seminar is organized under the auspices of the MIT Center for International Studies, which conducts research on contemporary international issues and provides and opportunity for faculty and students to share perspectives and exchange views. Each year the Bustani Seminar invites scholars, journalists, consultants, and other experts from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States to MIT to present recent research findings on contemporary politics, society and culture, and economic and technological development in the Middle East.</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">___________________</div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Please write to <a href="mailto:hae@mit.edu" target="_blank">hae@mit.edu</a> with questions.</div></div></div><br></body></html>