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Critical Perspectives on EBRD "Transition" Investment Priorities in Egypt (Video)
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was created twenty-one years ago with the purpose of supporting the transition to democracy and market economies in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Following the Arab uprisings of 2011, it was tasked by its shareholders, including the United States and the European Union, to assist the "democratic" transitions in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. Egypt, Jordan, ...
Keep Reading »Conference: The Egyptian Revolution One Year On (Oxford, 18-19 May 2012)
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Conference: The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On University of Oxford, 18-19 May 2012 You are warmly invited to register for the forthcoming international conference on The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On: Causes, Characteristics and Fortunes. The conference will be held on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 May 2012 at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. It is co-sponsored by the DPIR and John Fell OUP Research Fund, University of Oxford, ...
Keep Reading »New Perspectives for the Anti-War Movement (New York City, 16 May 2012)
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New Perspectives for the Anti-War Movement A Discussion with Havaar: Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions, and State Repression When: Wednesday, May 16 at 7 pm – 9 pm Where: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Segal Theater, First Floor. Co-sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics Havaar (which means “cry of emergency”) is a coalition of Iranians, Iranian-Americans, and allies ...
Keep Reading »Call for Artists: Watermill Center/ArteEast 2013 Residency (January-June 2013)
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In 2011, The Watermill Center and ArteEast partnered to launch an annual residency supporting the development of a new work by artists based in the Middle East and North Africa. The residency is accompanied by an artist talk with the community about the work done in residence. The 2011/2012 ArteEast artist was Abbas Akhavan. ArteEast is proud to announce that the partnership will be included in one of the Spring 2013 Residency slots (January - June 2013) at The ...
Keep Reading »United Methodists Recommend Sanctions & Boycotts; Reject Divestment
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The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation was honored to witness and support an historic vote by the world United Methodist Church (UMC)’s 2012 General Conference (GC), the highest decision-making body of the church, to adopt a resolution: Urging the U.S. government to “end all military aid to the region”; Calling on “all nations to prohibit… any financial support by individuals or organizations for the construction and maintenance of settlements”; ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: Global Environmental Change and Human Security - The Need for a New Vision for Science, Policy, and Leadership (Marrakech, 22-24 November, 2012)
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Global Environmental Change and Human Security: The Need for a New Vision for Science, Policy, and Leadership Marrakech, 22-24 November, 2012 Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 July 2012 The NRCS and the GIZ, along with numerous partners, have successfully organized the previous editions of the above conference respectively in 2009 and 2011 focusing on different, but related themes. This series of worldwide scientific meetings, organized in Morocco and ...
Keep Reading »Call for Participants: Disobedience, Counter-Conduct and Political Imagination in the New Mediterranean (Island of Ikaria, 17-27 June 2012)
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Mataroea Summer Seminar: Disobedience, Counter-Conduct and Political Imagination in the new Mediterranean Island of Ikaria, Greece 17 - 27 June 2012 The Mataroa Summer Seminar is an experiment in creating an expansive political experience. Its ambition is to combine the arts of debate, analysis, and aesthetic engagement about pressing global and local socio-political issues with the acts of participation, learning, exchange and active immersion in the life of the ...
Keep Reading »Boycotting the Equality Forum: Statement by Professor Katherine Franke (Director of Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality)
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[Below is the text and video of the statement issued by Katherine Franke in relation to her endorsement of the academic boycott of Israel. Franke is the Director of the Columbia Law School Center for Gender and Sexuality.] Remarks to the Equality Forum World Summit 2012 Panel on Legal Issues, 4 May 2012 Hi, I’m Katherine Franke from Columbia Law School, and I’m sorry I can’t join you today in person at the Equality Forum’s panel on legal issues, I want to thank you for ...
Keep Reading »The Demonization of Arabs and Muslims in the United States
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In the below episode of Akhir Kalam [The Last Word], an Egyptian show featured on On TV, human rights attorney Lamis Deek discusses currentnamics dy of demonization, surveillience, and criminalization of Arab and Muslim communities in the United States.
Keep Reading »In Defense of UCLA Professor David Shorter and All Scholars Who Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
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[The following open letter was issued by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) on 1 May 2012.] In Defense of UCLA Professor David Shorter and All Scholars Who Support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel In March 2012, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and Leila Beckwith, the co-founders of an anti-Palestinian organization known as the “Amcha Initiative,” emailed a letter to California politicians and administrators of the University ...
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