The Clifford Symposium 2011: (Re)Presenting National and Cultural Identities in the Middle East: Analysis, Journalism, and the Arts

Schedule of Events
September 22-24, 2011
McCullough Social Space
(Parking is available at Mahaney Center for the Arts)

THURSDAY, 9/22

4:30 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Shibley Telhami: " Identity and the Arab Awakening"

7:30 PM SESSION I: THE REPORTER'S CHALLENGE

Wendell Steavenson: "Tahrira"
Amira Hass: "Translating 'Occupation' to the Occupier"

FRIDAY, 9/23

4:30 PM SESSION II: RESPONDING TO REVOLUTIONS--CASE STUDIES

Radwan Ziadeh: "The Syrian Uprising: The Long Way to Democracy"
Quinn Mecham: "Islamist Movements and the Arab Uprisings"

CAMPUS-WIDE COOKOUT

7:30 PM SESSION III: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM

Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman: "Translating Revolution: Artistic Representations of the Egyptian Spring"

Maryam Al-Khawaja: "Bahrain's Social Media Uprising and the Government's Counter Campaign"

SATURDAY, 9/24

9:00 AM SESSION IV: ARTICULATING IDENTITY IN DANCE, WORD, AND FILM

Najwa Adra: "Tribal Identity and Dancing in Yemen: Irrational Survivals or Contributors to Civil Society?"

Mark Wagner: "Revolution Against Revolution: A Yemeni Poet of the 'Arab Spring' between Pan-Arabism and Regionalism"

Shimon Adaf: "Recreated in Translation: Oscillating between Tradition and Self-Invention"

Salman Masalha: "'Homeland' in Palestinian Writings"

Huda Fakhreddine: "The Arab Modernist Project and the Arab Spring: Half a Century of Revolutionary Discourse"

Two films in the Hirschfield International Film Series will be screened in conjunction with the Clifford Symposium:

Restrepo on Saturday, September 17th at 3:00 and 8:00 PM in Dana Auditorium

Incendies on Saturday, September 24th at 3:00 and 8:00 PM in Dana Auditorium

The Clifford Symposium 2011 is sponsored by
Atwater, Brainerd, Cook, Ross, and Wonnacott Commons
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Departments of Arabic, Geography, History, Modern Hebrew, and Political Science
Middle East Studies
Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium Fund
Office of the President
Rohatyn Center for International Affairs
Saltz Fund
Tillinghast Professorship