[LCM Events] UPDATE - Noam Chomsky: "United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria"

[Lebanese Club @ MIT]

UPDATE: A minute of silence will be observed in memory of late PM Rafic Hariri. Please attend and show your support. A
cross-institutional meeting will follow to discuss larger-scale response to assassination incident.

February 15th | Prof Noam Chomsky 
United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria

Professor Chomsky will explore the objectives and ramifications of the US presence in the Middle East: oil, Iraq, global planning,
and more. A central point of discussion will be the recent US-Syrian confrontations. He will also comment on developments on the
Palestinian-Israeli front. A 45-minutes Q&A session will follow. The whole session is estimated to last 90 minutes.

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Institute Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages. His works in generative linguistics contributed
significantly to the decline of behaviorism and led to the advancement of the cognitive sciences. Outside of his linguistic work,
Chomsky is also widely known for his radical left-wing political views and his criticism of the foreign policy of U.S. governments.
Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist and a supporter of anarcho-syndicalism. The term Chomskyan has come to be used
to refer to his ideas; however, Chomsky has described such words (Chomskyan, Marxist, Freudian...) as making "no sense in any
science" and belonging "to the history of organized religion".
More about Noam Chomsky <http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/external.html?http://www.chomsky.info>  (Links to external pages will open
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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 ( <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go> map)


"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 32-123 (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 late Lebanese PM Rafic Hariri and Professor of
Economics at LAU, Lebanon



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!
Lebanese Club @ MIT


UPDATE: A minute of silence will be observed in memory of late PM Rafic Hariri. Please attend and show your support. A
cross-institutional meeting will follow to discuss large-scale response to assassination incident.

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