[LCM Events] Tues, 2/10: Stephen Kinzer at the MIT Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar

[Heidi Erickson]

Please join us for the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar:

"Iran and the United States: Eternal Enemies or Natural Partners?
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Speaker: Stephen Kinzer, Journalist in Residence, Brown University; Formerly of the New York Times

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:30–6:30pm
70 Memorial Drive, Building E51, Room 376
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

The lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:
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."
 
Kinzer’s newest book, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, 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.” 

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. 

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.

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 Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds.

In 2006 Kinzer published Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.  It recounts the 14 times the United States has overthrown foreign governments.

Kinzer has made several trips to Iran, and is the author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. It tells how the CIA overthrew Iran's nationalist government in 1953. In 2010 Kinzer published Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future, which Huffington Post called “a bold exercise in reimagining the United States’ big links in the Middle East.” 

He wrote about Africa in his book A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It.

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.

He contributes articles to periodicals including The New York Review of Books, and writes a world affairs column for The Boston Globe.

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.”
 
About the Seminar Series:
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.


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Please write to hae at mit.edu with questions.

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