Still to Come this week
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Monday, March 18 // 10:30 am–1:15 pm (ET)
Amid a complex regional landscape and Iranian parliamentary elections, this half-day conference is set to explore the intricate dynamics of Iran's relationships with its allies in the Middle East and how these proxies impact US national security interests.
Monday, March 18 // 4–5:30 pm (ET)
Within studies of the Cold War, US diplomacy in Afghanistan has long been overshadowed by Soviet policy. In Days of Opportunity, Robert Rakove elucidates the profound and far-reaching impact of American diplomats, aid workers and corporations, from the interwar years to 1979. Far from being marginal observers, Americans undertook significant, consequential efforts within Afghanistan. Their choices played a pivotal and tragic role in Afghanistan’s emergence as a violent battleground at the end of the 1970s.
Tuesday, March 19 // 11:00 am–12:00 pm (ET)
The Middle East Program's Middle East Women's initiative is pleased to host former Wall Street Journal journalist Leslie T. Chang for a discussion about her new book, Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation. Over the course of two years, Chang followed three Egyptian women who work in the textile and garment manufacturing industry. Through their lives and her own experience living in Egypt after the 2011 Arab Uprisings, Chang probes the risks and prejudices women continue to face in Egypt, the country’s reckoning with centuries of political upheaval, and the struggle with the demands of globalization as well as economic pressures at home as Egypt’s economy faces serious challenges.
Thursday, March 21 // 4–5:30 pm (ET)
Michael Green will assess the current American position in Asia from historical and policy perspectives to answer the question: is American strategy working?
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