VIEW ONLINE: http://www.dev.portside.org/2012-10-16/two-announcements SUBSCRIBE: http://portside.org/subscribe VISIT PORTSIDE.ORG: http://portside.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Two Announcements <span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-10-16T00:00:00-05:00">October 16, 2012</span> By (Tue, 2012-10-16 00:00) <p> </p> <div> </div> <div> </div> <ul> <li> "The Uprising in Syria" Feauturing: Sinan Antoon,</li> <li> Bassam Haddad & Maya Mikdashi Monday, October 22 at the</li> <li> Brecht Forum (451 West St, New York, NY) </li> </ul> <div> </div> <div> Register here https://brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?id=12343&reset=1</div> <div> </div> <div> The uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad in</div> <div> Syria, which began in March 2011, has polarized the</div> <div> U.S. left. Some denounce the rebels, whom they view as</div> <div> fighting to overthrow a regional bulwark against</div> <div> Western imperialism; others support the rebels in their</div> <div> struggle against a ruthless dictatorship, in line with</div> <div> the spirit of the Arab Spring. Some in the latter camp</div> <div> support U.S. or NATO intervention on the rebels'</div> <div> behalf, while others do not.</div> <div> </div> <div> In the context of this polarization, Bassam Haddad and</div> <div> Maya Mikdashi—both contributors to Jadaliyya.com, an</div> <div> independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab Studies</div> <div> Institute)—will review some of the basic realities and</div> <div> contours of the Syrian case, including the structural</div> <div> causes of the uprising, the thorny issue of</div> <div> “sectarianism,” and the problem of Western</div> <div> interventionism. Chaired by Sinan Antoon. Co-sponsored</div> <div> by Jadaliyya.com.</div> <div> </div> <div> Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies</div> <div> Program and teaches in the Department of Public and</div> <div> International Affairs at George Mason University, and</div> <div> is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is</div> <div> the author ofBusiness Networks in Syria: The Political</div> <div> Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford</div> <div> University Press, 2012) and is Co-Founder/Editor of</div> <div> Jadaliyya Ezine.</div> <div> </div> <div> Maya Mikdashi is a PhD candidate at Columbia</div> <div> University's Department of Anthropology and Co-Director</div> <div> of the documentary film About Baghdad. Maya is</div> <div> currently Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow and</div> <div> Director of Graduate Studies at the NYU Kevorkian</div> <div> Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is</div> <div> Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.</div> <div> </div> <div> Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist and translator.He is a</div> <div> member of the Editorial Review Board of the Arab</div> <div> Studies Journal. He is an associate professor at the</div> <div> Gallatin School, New York University, and co-founder</div> <div> and co-editor of the cultural page of Jadaliyya</div> <div> </div> <div> ===</div> <div> </div> <div> Chilean Student Leaders in USA to Share</div> <div> Experiences</div> <div> </div> <div> Prensa Latina</div> <div> October 15, 2012</div> <div> </div> <div> http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&idioma=2&id=613581&Itemid=1</div> <div> </div> <div> Santiago de Chile</div> <div> </div> <blockquote> <div> Chilean student leaders Camila Vallejo and Noam</div> <div> Titellman began a visit to the United States to</div> <div> receive the 2012 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights</div> <div> Award, bestowed upon the student movement in</div> <div> Chile for its defense of public education.</div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div> This award is annually awarded by the Institute of</div> <div> Policy Studies in Washington, paying homage to</div> <div> former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier</div> <div> and his assistant, the U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt,</div> <div> both murdered in 1976 on orders from dictator</div> <div> Augusto Pinochet.</div> <div> </div> <div> Vallejo and Titellman will meet representatives of</div> <div> university communities and the Occupy Wall Street</div> <div> Movement, according to a communique released by</div> <div> the Student Federation at Catholic University.</div> <div> </div> <div> On Monday, the student leaders will hold a meeting</div> <div> at the Graduate Center of the City University of New</div> <div> York and will also present their experiences at the</div> <div> Hemispheric Studies Institute.</div> <div> </div> <div> Vallejo and Titellman will be in Washington on</div> <div> Wednesday to receive the award and, on Thursday,</div> <div> will participate in a meeting at Harvard University,</div> <div> Boston, sharing details on the struggle that began</div> <div> more than two years ago in Chile by the student</div> <div> movement defending free public quality education.</div> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. 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