The Crown Center Annual Opening Event
Celebrating the Crown and Goodman Families
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies kicked-off the 2012-13 academic yearas with a celebration the inaugurating of the Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History and with a panel discussion on the hottest topics in the Middle East. Read the full summary.
Inauguration of the Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History
- Welcome by President Frederick M. Lawrence & Provost Steve A.N. Goldstein '78
- Comments by Lester Crown & Corky Goodman
- Speaker Introduction by Jane Kamensky, Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization
- Lecture "The Role of History in Understanding Today’s Iran," by Naghmeh Sohrabi, first Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History
Panel Discussion - Iran, Syria and the Future of the Middle East
Moderator: Prof. Shai Feldman, Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center
Panel:
- Prof. Abdel Monem Said Aly, Director of the Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Cairo
- Prof. Eva Bellin, Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics
- Prof. Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East
- Prof. Kanan Makiya, Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies