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"The Uprising in Syria" Feauturing: Sinan Antoon,
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Bassam Haddad & Maya Mikdashi Monday, October 22 at the
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Brecht Forum (451 West St, New York, NY)
The uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad in
Syria, which began in March 2011, has polarized the
U.S. left. Some denounce the rebels, whom they view as
fighting to overthrow a regional bulwark against
Western imperialism; others support the rebels in their
struggle against a ruthless dictatorship, in line with
the spirit of the Arab Spring. Some in the latter camp
support U.S. or NATO intervention on the rebels'
behalf, while others do not.
In the context of this polarization, Bassam Haddad and
Maya Mikdashi—both contributors to Jadaliyya.com, an
independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab Studies
Institute)—will review some of the basic realities and
contours of the Syrian case, including the structural
causes of the uprising, the thorny issue of
“sectarianism,” and the problem of Western
interventionism. Chaired by Sinan Antoon. Co-sponsored
by Jadaliyya.com.
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies
Program and teaches in the Department of Public and
International Affairs at George Mason University, and
is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is
the author ofBusiness Networks in Syria: The Political
Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford
University Press, 2012) and is Co-Founder/Editor of
Jadaliyya Ezine.
Maya Mikdashi is a PhD candidate at Columbia
University's Department of Anthropology and Co-Director
of the documentary film About Baghdad. Maya is
currently Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow and
Director of Graduate Studies at the NYU Kevorkian
Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is
Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist and translator.He is a
member of the Editorial Review Board of the Arab
Studies Journal. He is an associate professor at the
Gallatin School, New York University, and co-founder
and co-editor of the cultural page of Jadaliyya
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Chilean Student Leaders in USA to Share
Experiences
Prensa Latina
October 15, 2012
Santiago de Chile
Chilean student leaders Camila Vallejo and Noam
Titellman began a visit to the United States to
receive the 2012 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights
Award, bestowed upon the student movement in
Chile for its defense of public education.
This award is annually awarded by the Institute of
Policy Studies in Washington, paying homage to
former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier
and his assistant, the U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt,
both murdered in 1976 on orders from dictator
Augusto Pinochet.
Vallejo and Titellman will meet representatives of
university communities and the Occupy Wall Street
Movement, according to a communique released by
the Student Federation at Catholic University.
On Monday, the student leaders will hold a meeting
at the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York and will also present their experiences at the
Hemispheric Studies Institute.
Vallejo and Titellman will be in Washington on
Wednesday to receive the award and, on Thursday,
will participate in a meeting at Harvard University,
Boston, sharing details on the struggle that began
more than two years ago in Chile by the student
movement defending free public quality education.
