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  • The best of AUC's MESC and Barqiyya newsletters, 2006 March 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    In a short time, and thanks mainly to MESC fellows like Garth Hall and his colleagues, our newsletter made it in the news, the big global news. For instance, �letters to the editor� are increasing and come from varied ...
  • MESC, 2005 December 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    The study of democratization has become a thriving industry. We have at present a voluminous literature about its history and its sequences. In relation to democratization history, there is at present a consensus on four ...
  • MESC, 2005 May 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-11-30)
    If there is such a thing as "new terrorism," what are its characteristics? Al-Qaeda, as a functioning organization, is -- we are told -- no more. Its institutional structure and funding agencies have been decapitated. Are ...
  • MESC, 2005 November 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    With the Middle East increasingly at the center of the news, the important question is what do we know about the region and how do we acquire this knowledge. Hence MESC�s emerging project of stock-taking knowledge about ...
  • MESC, 2005 October 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-11-30)
    This first newsletter of the academic year 2005/2006 coincides with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. Cairo streets are more crowded and animated than normal (if our imagination can overstretch itself and visualize ...
  • MESC, 2006 April 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    An article can be read �if at all- by a limited number of people. But cartoons capture the attention of millions right away. Consequently, they leave an impression �whether one is literate or not.
  • MESC, 2006 May 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    From September, MESC moves on with a new director, Professor Joel Beinin, the important new addition to the department of History and an old hand at Middle East Studies. He takes over a program in good health and well-geared ...
  • MESC, 2006 November-December 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    I hope that everyone had a restful �eid break and that we are all refreshed and ready to enter the second half of the fall semester with renewed energy and commitment. The Middle East Studies Center was very active during ...
  • MESC, 2006 October 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    The academic year has gotten off to a fast start with the introduction of a new required Introductory Interdisciplinary Seminar (MEST 569) for MA students, a regular seminar series on the theme of "The Political Culture ...
  • MESC, 2007 December 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    This is being written as I am attending the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in Montreal, Canada. Many of my colleagues on the faculty of AUC whose research and teaching focuses on the ...
  • MESC, 2007 March 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    During the last week of February, I participated in a workshop in Rome on �The Dynamics of Change in the Arab World: Globalization and the Restructuring of State Power.� The conference was the initial event in a year-long ...
  • MESC, 2007 May 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    As the academic year is coming to a close, this is a good time to review the achievements of the Middle East Studies Center and reflect on what we can aspire to do in the future. Among the outstanding accomplishments of ...
  • MESC, 2007 October 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    Welcome to the new school year. Kull-i sana w�intu tayyibin. The school year began with a new wave of political contestation in Egypt. Since classes started we have seen: a powerful strike by the Misr Spinning and Weaving ...
  • MESC, 2008 April 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    In March the Middle East Studies Center hosted an international workshop on �Islamists and Democrats.� This event was organized in collaboration with the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and had been in ...
  • MESC, 2008 March 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    One of the main attractions of studying the Middle East at AUC is that it is happening right outside our libraries and classrooms. If you were looking around Egypt and the region this month you would have noticed that ...
  • MESC, 2009 March 
    American University in Cairo. Middle East Studies Center (American University in Cairo, 2011-12-01)
    The route to AUC takes a turn from Tahrir Square to the 6th of October Bridge, passing the outskirts of Cairo and through the cemeteries to reach our final destination, al-Tagammu al-Khamis and the new campus. It is a quiet ...