The Ten Years On Project Presents: Teaching the Arab Uprisings

This is the second monthly signature panel event of the Ten Years on Project: Mass Protests and Uprisings in the Arab World project. This is the second in a year-long series of events and knowledge production by the collaborative Ten Years On project. Panelists will discuss a range of ideas and reflections related to pedagogy and teaching the Arab Uprisings.

Presented by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program (GMU), Arab Barometer (Princeton), and Arab Studies Institute

Speakers:

Marwan Kraidy Teaching Creative Insurgency: From Beirut to Philidelphia
Nadya Sbaiti Teaching Protest and Possibility in the Classroom
Thomas Serres Teaching the Algerian Hirak: Trajectory, Specificites, and Promises
Rabab El-Mahdi (Re)presenting the Uprisings in the Classroom: Fault-lines and Dilemmas
Mohammed Bamyeh Reflections on Teaching Revolutions
James Gelvin Addressing the Unanswerable Question: Why Rebellions Occur?
Khalid Medani Teaching the Uprisings in the Sudan
Sarah Shields Chronologies, Contexts, and Pedagogies on Ten Years On
Ali Ahmida Teaching and Theorizing the Arab Uprisings: Challenges and Lessons
Hatim El-Hibri Media Studies and the Arab Uprisings
Amaney Jamal (Moderator)
Bassam Haddad (Moderator)

Sponsored by the “Ten Years On” Project Partners: Organized by: Arab Studies Institute, Princeton’s Arab Barometer, and George Mason’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Project. Co-sponsored by: Georgetown University (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies), American University of Beirut (Asfari Institute), University of Chicago (Center for Contemporary Theory), ACSS, Brown University (Center for Middle East Studies), UC Santa Barbara (Center for Middle East Studies), Harvard University (Center for Middle East Studies), University of Exeter (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies), Birzeit University (Department of Political Science), Stanford University (Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law), AUC Affiliates, Georgetown University (Qatar), The Global Academy (MESA Affiliated), Institute of Palestine Studies.