| Date / Time | 14 February 2012 (The.) 18:00-20:00 |
|---|---|
| Venue | Gakushikaikan Room 320 (3-28 Kandanishiki-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Access Map |
| Language | English and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation available) |
| Organized by | Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World” |
| Jointly sponsored by | Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research “Space created by Lebanese and Syrian migrants: Confessionalism, clientelism, and civil society” (coordinator: Hidemitsu Kuroki) |
| Contact | FSC Office, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, e-mail : fsc_office[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp; replace [at] with @ |
| Open to the public, Free of charge |
- Nadim Shehadi (Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London)
- ” “The Syrian Uprising and its regional and international impact: Syria is not Tunisia, is not Egypt, is not Lybia – what is it then?”
- Commentator : Keiko SAKAI (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
- Chair : Hidemitsu Kuroki (Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Short Bio of the lecturer
Nadim Shehadi is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House where he directs a programme on the regional dimension of the Palestinian refugee issue in the Middle East Peace Process. He is also a senior member of St Antony’s College Oxford where he was director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies from 1986 to 2005. Nadim is a member of the executive board of the Centro de Estudios de Oriente Medio of the Fundacion Promocion Social de la Cultura in Madrid. In 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Aspen Institute in Washington DC and in the summer semester of 2012 he will be a visiting scholar at Tufts University. He is also a consultant to several governments and international organizations. Nadim was trained as an economist with an interest in the history of economic thought.
