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Policy expert lays out framework for understanding Middle East activities

April 17, 2015

Activity in the Middle East should be viewed through several frameworks, said James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank. Carafano, vice president of...

Brian Edwards, director of Northwestern’s MENA program, addresses the audience of about 95 at the Evanston Public Library on Monday. MENA faculty members Edwards, Wendy Pearlman, Henri Lauziere and Jessica Winegar discussed four misconceptions about the Middle East.

MENA faculty discuss four myths about the Middle East

April 14, 2015

Northwestern professors Monday discussed misconceptions about the Middle East and the reasoning behind the myths. Held at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., the event was the third lecture...

Ussama Makdisi, a professor of history at Rice University, speaks Monday at the Evanston Public Library. Makdisi discussed the origins of sectarianism in the modern Middle East.

Rice University professor discusses sectarianism in Middle East

March 3, 2015

A Rice University professor spoke Monday at the Evanston Public Library on sectarianism in the Middle East and how the region’s history of coexistence has slowly been forgotten. Ussama Makdisi,...

Guest Column: Respecting Syrian lives is the least we can do

February 17, 2015

The Syrian conflict has found its way to Northwestern campus politics. It took only four years, nearly four million refugees and 220,000 lives to do so. Its emergence on our campus isn’t going...

Zeytinoglu: World leaders should not praise Abdullah

Zeytinoglu: World leaders should not praise Abdullah

January 28, 2015

After 20 years of ruling, the leader of one of the world’s most atrocious regimes passed away Friday at the age of 90. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud, the absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia, ruled...

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