[LCM Events] TONIGHT - Dean Khoury: "How To Understand Contemporary Syria: One Historian's Perspective"

[Loai Naamani]

February 8th | Dean Philip Khoury 
How To Understand Contemporary Syria: One Historian's Perspective

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.

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.

More about Philip Khoury <http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/external.html?http://web.mit.edu/khoury/www>  (Links to external pages will
open in a new browser window)








The Lebanese Club @ MIT would like to invite you to a Lecture Series on Lebanese-Syrian Relations & Recent Developments in the
Middle East to be held throughout February at the new Stata Center, MIT:

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 8, 2004, 7:00pm, at 32-141 (map <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go> )


"How To Understand Contemporary Syria: One Historian's Perspective" - Philip S. Khoury, Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 15, 2004, at 7:00pm, at 32-141 (map <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go> )


"The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria" - Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor of Linguistics at MIT


Tuesday, FEBRUARY 22, 2004, at 7:00pm, at 32-141 (map <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go> )


"Lebanese-Syrian Relations: An Insider's Perspective" - Adib Farha, Advisor of former Lebanese Prime Minister and Professor of
Economics at LAU, Lebanon



All lectures are on Tuesdays at 7:00pm in 32-141 (Stata Center - 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge | map
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go> ). 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.

For more information about the event (lecture abstracts, speaker bios, & venue location), please visit:
http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/events/upcoming.html

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.


Hope to see you there!
Loai

(On behalf of the Lebanese Club @ MIT)

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