Upheaval in the Middle East presentation

Speakers Farideh Farhi and Ibrahim Aoude will discuss the implications of the upheaval to the revolutionary process in the Middle East and to U.S. foreign policy.

Farideh Farhi is an independent scholar and affiliate graduate faculty and lecturer at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. In the 1990’s she worked in Iran where she was a research associate and English editor of the Iranian Journal of International Studies published by the Institute of Political and International Affairs. She has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and International Crisis Group and in 2008 was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Ibrahim G. Aoude is professor and chair of ethnic studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the editor of Arab Studies Quarterly and the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies and publishes in two areas of research: (1) Middle East politics; and (2) Hawai'i political economy and social movements.

Event Sponsor
Ethnic Studies, American Studies, English, Political Science, School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Ibrahim Aoude, 956-4000, aoude@hawaii.edu, http://www.ethnicstudies.hawaii.edu/

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