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THE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST STUDIES OUTREACH PROGRAM 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 THE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST STUDIES OUTREACH PROGRAM 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.