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The crisis in November 2012 in Gaza represents a serious threat to peace and stability in the Middle East. The escalation of violence in Gaza comes at a time of unprecedented popular uprising in the region. A panel presentation with The Role of International Law in the Arab-Israeli Conflict The Role of US Foreign Policy in Palestinian Oppression |
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Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair Jewish-Arab Education for Equality: A discussion of the deep-rooted segregation in Israel’s schools—as well as an alternative, the Hagar Jewish-Palestinian School. Professor Neve Gordon Free and Open to the Public |
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Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair Human Rights as Security Threat: Examines how the government of Israel, facing criticism by human rights groups, has attempted to portray activists as national security threats. Professor Neve Gordon |
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For undergraduate and graduation students: The application deadline for the America's Unofficial Ambassadors 2013 Summer Service programs is coming up! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and we are already placing volunteers in each country. The deadline for our Indonesia, Zanzibar and Morocco programs is April 1. |
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Presenter: Nergis Ertürk, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University |
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According to the New York Times, Michael Sfard is the Israeli human rights and peace movement’s leading lawyer. He has brought scores of human rights and land-use cases challenging Israel’s occupation politicies in the Palestinian territories, and represented hundreds of soldiers refusing to serve in the occupied territories. And as the Christian Science Monitor and Jewish Forward put it: “Young lawyer Michael Sfard has achieved something that the White House and left-leaning Israeli political leaders could not. |
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2013 Academy Award Nominee, Documentary spanning 5 years of the struggle of one Palestinian villager against the Israeli Separation Barrier threatening his village, from the point of view of the 5 cameras destroyed in the process of making the film (Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, 2011, 94 min.) |
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Muslims in a Global Context is a semi-annual workshop/mini-course series that brings together faculty experts and practitioners with members of the business and cultural community, teachers, and university students for one weekend each fall and spring term. The workshops consist of presentations on topics of critical importance to the understanding of countries with significant Muslim populations. Each workshop focuses on a single cluster of countries. |
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This course traces the history of the ottoman empire from its origins as an obscure band of frontier warriors, to the highpoint of its geopolitical power in the sixteenth century, and on to its further evolution as an increasingly complex and peaceful society, down to the opening of the period of European imperialism and nation building. It will address not only the ottomans' political power, but also those economic, social, and cultural factors that helped explain that power and gave the empire such a distinctive place in the history of Western Europe, Balkans and the Middle East. |
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The Renaissance was a decisive movement in world history. It developed as a cultural and intellectual movement in the global context. Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, Europe and Muslim world engaged in intense exchange of ideas, objects, and skills shaped the Renaissance in Europe and in the Muslim World. This course will begin with a critical history of the evolution of the term. |
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