Middle East Month at the Center
Screening and discussion of The Gatekeepers (2012)
Set against the backdrop of renewed violence in the Gaza Strip, Dror Moreh’s 2012 documentary includes interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel’s Secret Service, who reflect on their individual successes and failures in that office. For more, see the official website at www.thegatekeepersfilm.com/.
Monday, October 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm
CAS 211 (685 Commonwealth Avenue)
Kosher pizza served at 7 pm
Middle East Feast
Join us on Monday, October 20 in the GSU Alley (downstairs) to celebrate the cultures of the MENA region and learn about BU’s growing major in Middle East and North Africa Studies. Eat Middle Eastern food! Enjoy music by Matti Kovler Ensemble and the BU a capella group “Kol Echad”! While you’re there, meet some of the MENA faculty and hear mini-presentations on our Spring 2015 course offerings and Study Abroad programs! We hope to see you and your friends there. Please contact mena@bu.edu with any questions.
Sponsored by the MENA Studies Program at the Pardee School of Global Studies, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, and the Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Literature. Special thanks to the Core Curriculum.
Monday, October 20th at 6-8 pm
GSU Alley (775 Commonwealth Avenue, downstairs)
Please RSVP to mena@bu.edu
Amichai Ayalon: “Security and Democracy Today: An Israeli Perspective”
The 2014 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture
Former Israeli intelligence chief and member of the Knesset Amichai Ayalon will survey this year’s events in the Middle East, with emphasis on the recent military operation in Gaza, its implications for Israeli democracy and for Israel’s international standing. Yahuda Yaakov, Consul General of Israel to New England, will speak about the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, and Joseph Wippl (Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of the Practice of International Relations) will introduce Ami Ayalon.
The 2014 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture is generously supported by Jonathan Krivine (CAS ’72).
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 7-8:30 pm
George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium (775 Commonwealth Ave, Second Floor)
Reception to follow
Coming up in November: Sayed Kashua