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THE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
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The Arab Spring in Context
A Workshop for K-12 Educators
August 11, 2011
Agenda
9:00 AM
The Arab Spring and U.S. Foreign Policy
Marc Lynch
Director, Institute for Middle East Studies
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
GWU
10:00 AM
Q&A
10:15 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Comparative Perspectives
Nathan Brown
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
GWU
11:30 AM
Q&A
11:45 AM
Lunch
12:30 PM
What Can We Learn From Popular Culture? Youth, Mass Media, and Political
Transformation in the Arab Spring
Laurie King
Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Arab Studies
Georgetown University
1:30 PM
Q&A
1:45 PM
Break
2:00 PM
The Egyptian Spring from a Personal Perspective
Rana Casteel
Arabic Language Specialist
GWU
3:00 PM
Q&A
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Speaker Bios
Nathan Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He is a
Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He teaches courses on Middle Eastern
politics, as well as more general courses on comparative politics and international relations. Dr. Brown is author of
multiple books, including Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt; The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the
Gulf; Constitutions in a Non-Constitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government;
Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine; and, Between Religion and Politics (with Amr
Hamzawy). He received his B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics
and Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.
Rana Casteel is an Arabic Language Specialist at The George Washington University. She holds an M.A. and B.A. (with
High Honors) from the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Before joining GW in 2007, she spent ten years teaching
and promoting international education at the American University in Cairo. She has been actively involved in developing
Arabic language materials and syllabi for a variety of language classes including an Arabic online course, Media Arabic
and Business Arabic. She has also taught Arabic at American University in Washington, DC and at George Mason
University in Virginia, in addition to serving as a translation consultant for the Library of Congress and various
international development organizations.
Laurie King is an editor, anthropologist, and freelance writer as well as Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and
Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She teaches courses on Mass Media, Pop Culture and Youth Culture of the Arab
World and Arab Diaspora; Urban Anthropology; and Anthropology of the Arab World. Dr. King lived in Lebanon for five
years in the 1990s, where she taught university and worked as a journalist and editor. Returning to the United States, King
edited Middle East Report Magazine, published by Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), from 19972000. In that capacity, she was a frequent commentator on national and international news programs, including MSNBC
and CNN, on political, cultural, and military developments in the Middle East and US foreign policies in the region. She
holds a Ph.D in Sociocultural Anthropology, specializing in the political identity and participation of Palestinian citizens
of Israel, based on her field research as a Fulbright scholar in 1992-93 in Nazareth, Israel.
Marc Lynch is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University,
where he is the Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and of the Project on Middle East Political Science. He is
also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and edits the Middle East Channel for
ForeignPolicy.com. Dr. Lynch publishes frequently on the politics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Arab
media and information technology, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Islamist movements. He also works on public diplomacy and
strategic communications. His most recent book, Voices of the New Arab Public: Al-Jazeera, Iraq, and Middle East
Politics Today, was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. He graduated from Duke University (BA), and
received his MA and PhD in Government from Cornell University.