CONFERENCES :

March 26, 2009:
SU DIME Conference

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The Project on Democracy in the Middle East at Syracuse University will be sponsoring a full day conference on "Democracy, Religion, and Conflict: the Dilemmas of Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking" on Thursday, March 26, 2009 from 9:00-5:30 at the Schine Student Center, 2nd floor. The conference sessions are free and open to the SU community, and to the public. The conference will feature Israeli, US, and Canadian experts on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process who will present on a variety of social, institutional, and cultural aspects hindering conflict resolution. For those attending the conference, a reception following the panel presentations will take place from 5:30-6:30 at 204 Maxwell Hall in the Maxwell School. Faculty, students, and members of the public are welcome to attend any or all of the sessions. For more information, please contact:

Miriam Fendius Elman
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Faculty Research Associate, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC)
Director, Project on Democracy in the Middle East, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Maxwell School of Syracuse University
400G Eggers Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020

Tel: 315-443-7404
Email: melman@maxwell.syr.edu

April 2 & 3, 2009:
“Old And New Media, and The Changing Faces of Islam”

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The Religion, Media and International Affairs Project at Syracuse University presents: "OLD AND NEW MEDIA, AND THE CHANGING FACES OF ISLAM" An international symposium to be held on April 2 & 3, 2009 at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs of Syracuse University.

The Religion, Media and International Affairs Project (RMIA), funded through a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, will host this culminating event for the three year project, an international conference which will include presentations by leading journalists who have worked in the Middle East.

This symposium will investigate the reciprocal influences of the press, religion and political power in the Muslim world by addressing the implications of the following questions:

• How are Islamic communities using old and new media to promote their messages?
• How is the non-Muslim media interacting with the Muslim world through the use of old and new media?

Special attendees include visiting fellows from the Middle East and North Africa as part of the Leaders for Democracy program at the Maxwell School for Citizenship & Public Affairs.

April 3, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 PM:
Arabs Gone Wild, a stand up comedy show

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Acts Include:

• Dean Obeidallah
• Maysoon Zayid
• Maria Shehata
• & Amer Zahr

Grant Auditorium, Syracuse University
April 3, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
The comedy show is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: The Religion, Media and International Affairs Project and the Muslim Student Association

October 26-27, 2006:

Syracuse University College of Law held a major symposium entitled "A Nuclear Iran: The Legal Implications of a Preemptive National Security Strategy."
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Oct. 18, 2006:

'Small World/Big Divides' peace summit
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This event held in Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center brought together an esteemed group of diplomats, educators and human rights advocates for a lively dialogue focusing on Middle East unrest and what can be done to bridge the divides that prevent mutually acceptable resolution to conflict.

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March 31-April 1, 2006:

Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft
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In the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, "Islamic fundamentalism" has emerged as the bête noire of the post-Cold War world. Lazy prejudices, tired clichés, and unduly simplistic assumptions about "Islam" and "Muslims" have now become part and parcel of the citizenry’s everyday speech. The resulting political caricature of Muslims assumes that there is a unitary "Islamic" position on important issues of statecraft and governance. This symposium investigated the nature of political power in the Muslim world.