Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 2/26 Arab Spring Reading Group

    Middle East Studies will convene a faculty and graduate student reading group on the Arab Spring.
     
    The (postponed) first meeting will now be Wednesday, February 26, 1:30-2:30 in Oak 402. 
     
    Cookies and coffee provided.
     
    We will discuss two articles at this first meeting:
     
    Amy Austin Holmes, “There are weeks when decades happen: Structure and Strategy in the Egyptian Revolution,” Mobilization 17:4 (2012), pp. 391-410.
     
    and 
     
    Nasser Abourahme, “Past the end, not yet at the beginning: On the revolutionary disjuncture in Egypt,” City 17:4 (August 2013), 426-432.  
     
    For more information, contact: Jeremy Pressman at jp@uconn.edu