MIT Starr Forum: Syria and the Middle East: What’s Next?

Tue Feb 25 2025 at 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

MIT Building E25, Room 111 | Cambridge

MIT Center for International Studies
Publisher/HostMIT Center for International Studies
MIT Starr Forum: Syria and the Middle East: What\u2019s Next?
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Please join us for a conversation with leading experts on Syria and the Middle East.
About this Event

Please join us for a conversation with leading experts on Syria and the Middle East as they explore the hopes and challenges of a post-Assad regime.


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Speakers:

Marwa Daoudy is an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) and the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). Her research and teaching focus on critical and human security studies, environmental and climate security, climate justice, water politics, negotiation theory, peace negotiations, and Middle East politics.

Rana Khoury is an assistant professor of political science and a faculty member of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her expertise includes comparative and international politics, with a focus on nonviolent conflict processes including activism, displacement, and humanitarian response. Her geographic focus is on the Middle East, especially the Levant.


Moderator:

Richard Nielsen is an associate professor of political science at MIT and the faculty director of the MIT-Arab World Program at the Center for International Studies. He studies and teaches on Middle East politics, international relations, religion, gender, political violence, quantitative methodology, and interpretive methodology.


This event is co-sponsored by MIT-Arab World.


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A recording will be posted on YouTube following the event.

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