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Videos List - 8 Videos
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Title	Presenter	Type	Size	Date

A Debate: The Middle East Policies of the Bush and Obama Administrations	Rami Khouri, Michael Young	Video	203 MB	Dec.4, 2008
		Audio	78.5 MB
'The Brazen White Sign of the Dollar': Empire, Economy and the Practice of Diaspora	Peter James Hudson	Video	97.3 MB	Nov 26, 2008
		Audio	36.3 MB
Real Change? A Forum on U.S. Elections	Markus Marktanner, Patrick McGreevy and Karim Makdisi	Video	180 MB	Nov.11, 2008
		Audio	51.6 MB
Memorials to the Second Civil War	Dell Upton	Video	142 MB	May 22, 2008
		Audio	53.1 MB
Hollywood Real Bad Arabs	Jack Shaheen	Video	150 MB	Apr.22, 2008
		Audio	54.5 MB
US Policy in the Middle East after Bush	Ali Abunimah	Video	183 MB	Apr.3, 2008
		Audio	66.7 MB
Urban Anchors, Models of Engagement	Omar Blaik	Video	158 MB	Apr.1, 2008
		Audio	57.4 MB
American Policy toward Palestine	Hisham Ahmed	Video	123 MB	Mar.18, 2008
		Audio	44.8 MB
Democracy and Conflict	Lawrence Hatab	Video	162 MB	Mar.11, 2008
		Audio	58.9 MB

Videos Descriptions

American Policy toward Palestine

"American Foreign Policy toward Palestine before 1948: Reflections on Palestinians Self-determination Today" by Dr. Hisham Ahmed, Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Mary's College of California. He earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. His most recent publications include "Palestinian Resistance" and "Suicide Bombing: Causes and Consequences," and "The Evolution of Hamas in Palestinian Society: Domestic, Regional and International Determinants," In addition to his frequent contributions to the online journal Bitterlemons and Al-Ayyam newspaper, he is a frequent guest speaker on a variety of international and local Arabic and English TV stations and other news media. In 2005 he was selected as an interlocutor to conduct extensive interviews with all seven Palestinian presidential candidates, including President Mahmoud Abbas, on Palestine TV.

Democracy and Conflict

"Democracy and Conflict: Reflections on American Politics and the Prospects for Democracy in the Arab and Muslim World" presented by Dr. Lawrence Hatab on 11 March 2008 at AUB. Lawrence Hatab is Louis I. Jaffe, Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He received his PhD from Fordham University in 1976. His research focuses on 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy, particularly Nietzsche and Heidegger.
The lecture was sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)

Hollywood Real Bad Arabs

"Hollywood's Reel Bad Arabs: Problems and Prospects" by Dr. Jack Shaheen. Professor Jack Shaheen is an internationally acclaimed author and media critic. An Oxford Research Scholar and former CBS news consultant on Middle East Affairs, Shaheen's lectures and writings illustrate that damaging racial and ethnic stereotypes of Asians, blacks, Native Americans and others injure innocent people. Dr. Shaheen is the recipient of two Fulbright teaching awards and holds degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Missouri. He is the author of five books: Nuclear War Films, Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture, The TV Arab, the award-winning book and film Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, and most recently, Guilty:
Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11. Professor Shaheen has given over 1,000 lectures all over the US and in three continents. He has numerous publications in journals and he is the recipient of several awards. This lecture was sponsored by The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR).

Urban Anchors, Models of Engagement

"Urban Anchors, Models of Engagement" lecture by Omar Blaik, organized by The AUB's 'Neighborhood Initiative' (Office of the President), and the Department of Architecture and Design of AUB. Blaik is the chief executive and president of U3 Ventures, a real estate development and advisory company in Philadelphia that focuses on urban development near universities. Before forming the company in 2006, he spent 10 years at the University of Pennsylvania, most recently as senior vice-president for facilities and real estate services.
The lecture was sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR).

US Policy in the Middle East after Bush

"After Bush: Will US Policy Towards the Middle East Change?" by Ali Abunimah, BA from Princeton University and MA from the University of Chicago. He is the co-founder of the 'Electronic Intifada,' an online publication about Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (electronicintifada.net). Abunimah is the author of 'One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse,' 2006 and has contributed to several other volumes. Abunimah has published numerous articles in top newspapers worldwide.
The lecture was sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) of AUB.

Memorials to the Second Civil War

Dell Upton is David A. Harrison Professor of Architecture and Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Architectural History at the University of Virginia. Dr. Upton is interested in the ways that cultural, social, aesthetic, and cognitive theories can enrich the study of architectural history. His five books and many articles range from a study of colonial Virginia churches to critiques of New Urbanism and heritage tourism to, most recently, Architecture in the United States, a volume in the Oxford History of Art series. In recent years, his scholarly work has focused on urban life and culture. He was a consultant and principle catalogue essayist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861 (2000). His Another City: American Urban Life and Urban Spaces, 1790-1850 will be published by Yale University Press in 2008. He is currently working on a book on civil-rights memorials and urban politics in the American South and on a world history of architecture. His areas of expertise are world architecture; American architecture, urbanism and cultural landscapes; material culture; and African-American cultural landscapes.

Real Change? A Forum on U.S. Elections

CASAR sponsored a forum that featured three short presentations on the U.S.
elections followed by an open discussion on Oct. 30th. Markus Marktanner
(Economics) spoke about politics and economics during this moment of
economic upheaval. Patrick McGreevy (CASAR) addressed the prospects that
this election will initiate fundamental social and political change in US.
Karim Makdisi (PSPA) examined the question of change in U.S. foreign policy,
particularly with regard to the ME.

'The Brazen White Sign of the Dollar': Empire, Economy and the Practice of Diaspora

CASAR sponsored a lecture by Dr. Peter James Hudson entitled 'The Brazen White Sign of the Dollar': Empire, Economy, and the Practice of Diaspora." Peter James Hudson completed his PhD in the American Studies Program at New York University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Buffalo. He is currently working on a manuscript, Dark Finance: An Unofficial History of Wall Street, American Empire, and the Caribbean, 1889-1929, that recounts the early advance of New York City banking and finance into the Caribbean. Dr. Hudson has also examined twentieth-century Caribbean writing, photography and film. In addition to his academic work, he was the editor of North: New African Canadian Writing (a special issue of the literary journal West Coast Line) and has written on Caribbean, Black North American, and African diaspora arts and culture for a number of journals including Prefix Photography (Toronto), Transition: An International Review (Cambridge), Text und Töne (New York), Chimurenga (Capetown), The Stabroek News (Georgetown), and Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East (New York).

A Debate: The Middle East Policies of the Bush and Obama Administrations

CASAR sponsored a debate on "The Middle East Policies of the Bush and Obama Administrations" by Mr. Rami Khouri and Mr. Michael Young on November 25, 2008. Rami Khouri is the director of the Issam fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI). He is also a syndicated columnist and frequent commentator on radio and television programs. He is the author of more than ten books and book-length reports on archaeology and public affairs. He has received numerous fellowships and awards. He was formerly chief umpire for Little League baseball in Jordan. Michael Young is the opinion page editor of the Daily Star, to which he contributes a weekly column. Until 2000, he was the English publications editor for the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. His work has appeared in many prominent newspapers and magazines in the United States, and he regularly discusses Middle Eastern affairs on a variety of international radio and television networks.