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Security, Individual Rights and Minority Communities After 9/11
How do we maintain national security while also protecting individual civil liberties? On March 25, the Council on Middle East hosted a panel and community discussion around this quandary through presentations by scholars, legal experts, and other professionals in conversation with Yale and New Haven community members. Surveying topics from FBI surveillance techniques to the experience of Muslim communities to a history of terrorist tactics, the discussion investigated legal, social, and political implications for the post-9/11 experience.
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Education in New Cairo
In April 2008, eight high school students from the Center for Global Studies (CGS) in Norwalk, Conn., traveled to Egypt for a pioneering two-week study tour. Led by their teacher, Emad El-Digwy, and Greta Scharnweber, the MacMillan Center’s PIER Director for Middle East Studies, the students were hosted by the Modern Education School (MES) in New Cairo, a sprawling suburb of the largest city in the Arab World.
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Contemporary Middle East Studies Strengthened
The Council on Middle East Studies of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has announced an initiative to promote richer understanding of contemporary issues in the Middle East. The initiative will complement Yale's already substantial offerings and resources in ancient, pre-modern and modern Middle East Studies, and expand research and teaching on the Middle East, and its relations with the rest of the world. In the first three years of the initiative, the Yale-Middle East Visiting Faculty Program, the keystone component, will bring distinguished visiting scholars to teach courses and do research on the region at Yale.
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Black Gold Tour to the Persian Gulf
We hear on almost a daily basis that oil remains one of the world’s most precious and sought-after commodities, and that the most extensive reserves of this natural resource lie in the Middle East. This past November, ten educators (four college-level and six high school-level) traveled with PIER Outreach Director Greta Scharnweber to Qatar and the U.A.E. for a field study tour designed to look into this assumption and explore a variety of topics related to oil in the Middle East and beyond. It focused broadly on the rapidly developing economies of the Arabian Peninsula, touched upon oil and energy issues, and focused most significantly on educational and cultural exchange.
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Hizballah, the Israel Defense Forces and Beyond
On September 14, the Henry R. Luce Hall auditorium filled with members of the Yale community and the
general public to hear a panel discussion, “Hizballah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Beyond:
Perspectives on the Current Crisis in the Middle East.”
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PIER Outreach: On the Road to Morocco
Where the Middle East is concerned, most people initially think of political strife, religious fundamentalism, and violent conflict. This past summer, PIER-Middle East Studies took a
radically different approach to learning and teaching about Middle Eastern culture and
society. Rather than playing into simplistic stereotypes of the region, “Arts in Action in the
Middle East” looked first at arts and culture, tracing the historical, political, and social impact
of the creative arts in the region over time.
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