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  Israel’s 2013 Election: At a Political Crossroad

  January 17, 2013 / Lectures Live

  On January 14, 2013, the Program for Jewish Civilization convened a day-long conference on the legislative elections that will be held on January 22 in Israel. The conference comprised three spectacular panels, bringing together scholars, policy practitioners, and journalists from all over Washington, DC and the Middle East. Moran Stern, who teaches for the PJC at Georgetown University, moderated a panel on domestic Israeli politics, made up of Natasha Mozgovaya of Haaretz and Natan Sachs of the Saban Center at [...]

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  Tawfik Hamid on the Jamaa Islamiya and the Arab Spring

  December 5, 2012 / Faith Complex

  Last year’s Egyptian revolution and ouster of Hosni Mubarak has created new political opportunities for previously marginalized groups. Among these is the radical Islamist Jamaa Islamiya (literally “Islamic Group”), which has been accused of ties to Al-Qaeda and is treated as a terrorist group by American and European governments. As Egypt moves forward, a power struggle between secular and religious factions, including hardline Salafis, is becoming increasingly significant. In this Faith Complex, Dr. Tawfik Hamid discusses his history with the [...]

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  Bruce Hoffman Analyzes bin Laden’s Death

  December 5, 2012 / Faith Complex

  On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALS cornered and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, nearly ten years after the so-called War on Terror was first declared. Bin Laden’s death leaves unanswered questions such as: Who will inherit al-Qaeda’s leadership? What is the future of the Taliban insurgency? And will this lead to greater stability in the region? Bruce Hoffman joins Professor Sarah Fainberg to discuss these problematics in this Faith Complex. Dr. Hoffman is Director of the Center for Peace [...]

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  Dan Schueftan on the Strategic Environment in the Middle East

  December 5, 2012 / Lectures Live

  In this talk, Professor Dan Schueftan discusses how the recent social and political changes in the Middle East affect the strategic environment there, particularly as it relates to Israeli and American foreign policy and the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Dr. Schueftan is the Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Sciences there and at the Israel Defense Forces National Defense College. He is the Aaron and Cecile [...]

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  Frédéric Encel on France, Iran, and the Middle East

  October 14, 2011 / Faith Complex

  Iran’s nuclear program has been a source of consternation for its neighbors in the Middle East–most notably Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia–as well as for the rest of the world. The United States has a strong desire not to see a nuclear Iran, especially under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Khamenei, but it is not the only one. In this Faith Complex, French geopolitics expert Frédéric Encel and Dr. Sarah Fainberg discuss the triangulation of Israel, [...]

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  David Friedman on Campus Anti-Zionism

  August 11, 2011 / Faith Complex

  What is the obligation of universities to protect freedom of speech? In 2010, Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren spoke at UC Irvine, where he was interrupted by anti-Israel protesters. Three years earlier, Columbia University hosted Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prominent denier of the Holocaust, homosexuality in Iran, and human rights. And this year marks the seventh annual Israeli Apartheid Week, which consists of university lectures and gatherings to protest the Israeli state. David Friedman is regional director [...]

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  Andrew Tabler Tackles Syrian Secularism

  June 30, 2010 / Faith Complex

  In light of the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, the future of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has become a pressing question. Unlike many of its neighbors, the minority Alawite ruling party in Syria has preserved an ostensibly secular society in order to suppress Islamist movements. The Hama massacre of 1982 and current rebellions in the country, however, bring to light the brutal underbelly of the secular system. Analyst and journalist Andrew Tabler is a Next Generation fellow [...]

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  Neil MacFarquhar on the Future of the Arab World

  June 9, 2010 / Faith Complex

  Raised in Libya and a veteran of Middle East media coverage, The New York Times‘ UN Bureau Chief Neil MacFarquhar joins PJC Director Jacques Berlinerblau to mull over democratization in the Middle East. MacFarquhar is author of two books: The Sand Café, a satiric fiction about foreign correspondents trapped in a Saudi hotel, and The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East, an examination of less-covered aspects of the region. [...]

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