Past Guests

Indyk Jihan Sadat

Virgil O. Wiebe

Director of Clinical Education
Associate Professor of Law/ UST
Co-Director - Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services. He headed a mission to clearing up the cluster bombs mess in Lebanon. Israeli drooped more than 2 millions of them in the last 72 hours of the war! More

Professor Ragui Assaad, Director of Population Council, Middle East... are the Arab world necessary?

Ragui Assaad, professor, researches labor policy and labor market analysis in developing countries, the informal economy, community and economic development, and developing countries' urban planning. His current research projects include studying the effects of economic reform on the Egyptian labor market, female labor supply in Egypt, and community development efforts among Cairo's informal waste collectors.

Professor Ahmad Atif Ahmad

Is interfaith dialog way overrated?

Ellen Kennedy, P.D

Senator Sandy Pappas

Genocide in Darfur

Alisha Larson, Young America of Arabia

Arab sexuality... fact and fiction

Dr. Pam Nice, professor of Middle East studies will review Josef Massad new Book, the desiring Arab

Massad, Joseph A. Desiring Arabs. 448 p., 1 halftone. 6 x 9 2007

Cloth $35.00spec ISBN: 978-0-226-50958-7 (ISBN-10: 0-226-50958-3) Spring 2007

Among the many shocking violations of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the most notorious was sexual torture. Military personnel justified this abhorrent technique as an effective tool for interrogating Arabs, who are perceived as repressed and especially susceptible to sexual coercion. These abuses laid bare a racist and sexually charged power dynamic at the root of the U.S. conquest of Iraq—a dynamic that reflected centuries of Western assumptions about Arab sexuality. Desiring Arabs uncovers the roots of these attitudes and analyzes the impact of Western ideas—both about sexuality and about Arabs—on Arab intellectual production, More

Taner Akcam, The Armenian genocide

Dr. Taner Akcam, will Airs this Sunday the 11h

Taner Akcam

Taner Akçam (* October 23,1953, Turkey) is a Turkish historian, sociologist and publicist. He is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Turkish government in 1915

Watch his presentation

http://www.ias.umn.edu/media/Akcam.php

The name of the book

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

11/16/2007

Dr. Aref Abu Rabai

My Life in Israel, as an Israeli Arab

Dr. Aref Abu- Rabia, a Palestinian Beduoin with a Ph.D. in anthropology and sociology, is a professor in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University in the Negev region of Israel.

Lisa & Andrew

Young American students just came back from Egypt after doing some exciting research

12/19/07

Sara Abdelaal and Kyle Johnson collage students.

Students activism in Campus

2007 Election

Bob Meek, political consultant

Whey the republican, if they were serious, keep on sending actor, crook, idiot, cheerleader, to the white house....

Professor Shafi Khaled

Has major written works on the industrialization of Bangladesh and vocational education for the impoverished rural youth there.

What is going on in Pakistan?

Anna Baltzer: Witness in Palestine

Peace activist to speak Jan. 27 on her experiences in Palestine

Anna Baltzer, a Jewish-American author and activist, will discuss "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos". Baltzer, a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, More

Imam Mohammed .... a dentist by profession and Imam by training, a fresh look at Islam.

which job is more of a pulling tooth?

US Congress Keith Ellison

Why visiting Israel and Guantanamo, ... both imprison Muslims

Eran Kolirin:

Band's Visit Director: Eran Kolirin

Eran Kolirin is the the director and writer of "The Band's Visit," the best israeli film I saw this year. World-premiering in Cannes Fest ib May, it won a number of major awards and is now Israel's official entry for the Best Foreighn-Lnaguage Oscar.

A groundbreaking story, a miracle where bunch of Egyptian police play music, meet bunch of Israelis without guns.

once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. They tried to manage on their own, only to find themselves in a desolate, almost forgotten, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert. A lost band in a lost town. Not many people remember this. It wasn’t that important. More

Professor Fouzi Slisli

Assistant Professor of Human Relations and Multicultural Education/ St. Cloud University
B.A. 1993, Mohammed First University - Morocco; M.S. 1995, University of Essex - UK

The role of race and religion in US presidential election